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Computer-Assisted Coloring-Graph Generation And Structural Analysis, Wesley Su Jan 2020

Computer-Assisted Coloring-Graph Generation And Structural Analysis, Wesley Su

Honors Theses

Graphs are a well studied construction in discrete math, with one of the most common areas of study being graph coloring. The graph coloring problem asks for a color to be assigned to each vertex in a graph such that no two adjacent vertices share a color. An assignment of k colors that meets these criteria is called a k-coloring. The coloring graph Ck(G) is defined as the graph where every vertex represents a valid k-coloring of graph G and edges exist between colorings that di↵er by one vertex. We call graph G the base graph of the k-coloring graph …

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Performance Improvement In Healthcare: Integrating Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model Within A Just Culture, Candice Freeman, Jill Erin Stefaniak Jan 2020

Performance Improvement In Healthcare: Integrating Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model Within A Just Culture, Candice Freeman, Jill Erin Stefaniak

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Healthcare leadership and department management personnel are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring safe, high-quality patient care delivered by competent and proficient staff. This responsibility often comes in the form of identification of discrepant and erroneous practices that result in subsequent employee disciplinary action process improvement discussions and implementation. This case study presents an example of a sentinel event and how Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model (BEM) was utilized in the context of a Just Culture to ensure both processes and personnel were adequately supported to meet expected task outcomes.

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Chopped Id: Students Engaged In Gamification To Enhance Advanced Instructional Design Techniques, John Baaki, Tian Luo Jan 2020

Chopped Id: Students Engaged In Gamification To Enhance Advanced Instructional Design Techniques, John Baaki, Tian Luo

STEMPS Faculty Publications

The Food Network's television show Chopped pits chefs against each other, in a three-round battle, to create their best appetizer, entrée, and dessert. Facing master chef judges, the chef participants present their dishes with one chef chopped (eliminated) after each round. The last chef standing is crowned the Chopped Champion. A faculty member in an instructional design and technology program, created Chopped ID, an innovative adaptation and gamification of the Food Network's Chopped for application in a distance learning environment. Participating as competitors and judges, graduate students, firsthand, experienced gamification as an advanced instructional design technique. In the end, Chopped …

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Reed Magazine, Issue 153, Gale Acuff, Faith Adiele, Luis Aguilar, Sophia Apodaca, Pamela Baker, Maria Baranda, Lou Beach, William Brown, Shayna Bruce, Kait Burton, Sabah Carrim, Joy Castro, Manit Chaotragoongit, Anne Cheilek, Elizabeth Childs, Annie Christain, Eileen Collins, Sarah Dalton, Nam Das, Holly Day, Rozanne Di Silvestro, Hollie Dugas, Monique Ferrell, Forrest Gander, Marie Gethins, Cynthia Good, Van Hall Jr., Marina Hatsopoulos, Emma Hester, Brenda Hillman, Gail Hosking, Richard Hricko, Phillip Hurst, Stephanie F. Imbeau, Daniel M. Jaffe, Jeanne Julian, Dana Kotler, Ramiza Koya, S.K. Kruse, Jennifer Lothrigel, Kurt Luchs, Edward Matthews, Ryan Mcfadden, Cathleen Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Giorgio Parisi, Alan Michael Parker, Emmy Perez, Timothy F. Phillips, Andre Rubin, Daniel Saalfeld, Michael Sano, Faith Shearin, Robert Sondgrath, Richard Stim, Rodrigo Toscano, Fracisco Uribe, Katelyn Joy Wilkinson, Pat Willard, John Sibley Williams, Anni Wilson, Tiarra Wu, Jamayka Young Jan 2020

Reed Magazine, Issue 153, Gale Acuff, Faith Adiele, Luis Aguilar, Sophia Apodaca, Pamela Baker, Maria Baranda, Lou Beach, William Brown, Shayna Bruce, Kait Burton, Sabah Carrim, Joy Castro, Manit Chaotragoongit, Anne Cheilek, Elizabeth Childs, Annie Christain, Eileen Collins, Sarah Dalton, Nam Das, Holly Day, Rozanne Di Silvestro, Hollie Dugas, Monique Ferrell, Forrest Gander, Marie Gethins, Cynthia Good, Van Hall Jr., Marina Hatsopoulos, Emma Hester, Brenda Hillman, Gail Hosking, Richard Hricko, Phillip Hurst, Stephanie F. Imbeau, Daniel M. Jaffe, Jeanne Julian, Dana Kotler, Ramiza Koya, S.K. Kruse, Jennifer Lothrigel, Kurt Luchs, Edward Matthews, Ryan Mcfadden, Cathleen Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Giorgio Parisi, Alan Michael Parker, Emmy Perez, Timothy F. Phillips, Andre Rubin, Daniel Saalfeld, Michael Sano, Faith Shearin, Robert Sondgrath, Richard Stim, Rodrigo Toscano, Fracisco Uribe, Katelyn Joy Wilkinson, Pat Willard, John Sibley Williams, Anni Wilson, Tiarra Wu, Jamayka Young

Reed Magazine

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University Of Texas At Tyler Catalog, 2020 - 2021, University Of Texas At Tyler Jan 2020

University Of Texas At Tyler Catalog, 2020 - 2021, University Of Texas At Tyler

Catalogs

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The Crippling Costs Of The Juvenile Justice System: A Legal And Policy Argument For Eliminating Fines And Fees For Youth Offenders, Leigh R. Shapiro Jan 2020

The Crippling Costs Of The Juvenile Justice System: A Legal And Policy Argument For Eliminating Fines And Fees For Youth Offenders, Leigh R. Shapiro

Emory Law Journal

Across the United States, approximately one million youth appear in juvenile court each year. In almost every state, youth and their families face monetary charges for a young person’s involvement in the juvenile justice system. Too often the inability to pay subjects juveniles and their families to incarceration, suspension of driver’s licenses, an inability to expunge records, and economic and social stress, and pushes the youth offender deeper into the juvenile justice system. Over one hundred years ago, the Illinois legislature established the first separate juvenile court system. That system was designed to recognize that youth are different from adults …

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The Ministerial Exception: Seeking Clarity And Precision Amid Inconsistent Application Of The Hosanna-Tabor Framework, Rachel Barrick Jan 2020

The Ministerial Exception: Seeking Clarity And Precision Amid Inconsistent Application Of The Hosanna-Tabor Framework, Rachel Barrick

Emory Law Journal

Supported by statute and the Constitution, the ministerial exception bars employees who are deemed “ministers” from bringing discrimination claims against their religious employer. Religious employers—whether a religious association, corporation, educational institution, or society—are exempted from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of religion. The ministerial exception is no longer limited to religious discrimination and has been expanded to apply in cases of gender, race, age, and disability discrimination. In 2012, the Supreme Court affirmed that a constitutional ministerial exception existed and was supported by the Free Exercise and Establishment …

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Preserving Osteopathic Antiquity Through Historical Pamphlets And Postcards, Lori A. Fitterling, Robyn Oro Jan 2020

Preserving Osteopathic Antiquity Through Historical Pamphlets And Postcards, Lori A. Fitterling, Robyn Oro

Faculty and Staff Publications

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, osteopathic information was circulated by way of pamphlets and postcards. Several osteopathic historical pamphlets and postcards from the D'Angelo Library collection have been researched and digitized in order to preserve these osteopathic artifacts and highlight their historical significance for the current profession.

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Complete Anatomy, Sara K. Motsinger Jan 2020

Complete Anatomy, Sara K. Motsinger

Faculty and Staff Publications

Complete Anatomy is a 3D anatomy platform created by 3D4Medical, which has been developing medical products since 2009. It is a platform used by students, educators, medical professionals, and institutions and has more than one million users for its interactive anatomy models, clinical video animations, and virtual dissection tools.

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Hydrogen Peroxide Mediates Artemisinin-Derived C-16 Carba-Dimer-Induced Toxicity Of Human Cancer Cells, Amanda Kalen, Brett Wagner, Ehab Sarsour, Maneesh G. Kumar, Jessica L. Reedy, Garry R. Buettner, Nabin C. Barua, Prabhat Goswami Jan 2020

Hydrogen Peroxide Mediates Artemisinin-Derived C-16 Carba-Dimer-Induced Toxicity Of Human Cancer Cells, Amanda Kalen, Brett Wagner, Ehab Sarsour, Maneesh G. Kumar, Jessica L. Reedy, Garry R. Buettner, Nabin C. Barua, Prabhat Goswami

Faculty and Staff Publications

This study used a nitroaliphatic chemistry approach to synthesize a novel artemisinin-derived carba-dimer (AG-1) and determined its anti-proliferative effects in human normal and cancer cells. AG-1 treatments selectively inhibit proliferation of cancer cells compared to normal human fibroblasts. Compared to artemisinin, AG-1 is more toxic to human breast, prostate, head-neck, pancreas and skin cancer cells; 50% inhibition (IC50) 123 µM in AG-1 vs. 290 µM in artemisinin-treated breast cancer cells. AG-1 treatment decreased (~ 5 folds) cyclin D1 protein expression that correlated with an increase in the percentage of cells in the G1-phase, suggesting a G1 delay. AG-1-induced toxicity was …

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Becoming Our Own Bloodhounds: How To Seek And Find The Information We Need, Cindy Schmidt Jan 2020

Becoming Our Own Bloodhounds: How To Seek And Find The Information We Need, Cindy Schmidt

Faculty and Staff Publications

Despite pleas from faculty to use strong Internet sources, students continue using more convenient search methods. Emphasizing the value gleaned from a strategic search, this lesson walks students through each step in responding to a case study of a patient inquiring about wearable devices for prevention of skin cancer. Students begin by learning how to compose an answerable question and use this question to select their search keywords. Then, students will use google, google scholar and pubmed to retrieve a set of citations. Using the evidence-based pyramid as a tool to discriminate better references, the class will compare and contrast …

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The Political Process Of Preemption, Paul A. Diller Jan 2020

The Political Process Of Preemption, Paul A. Diller

University of Richmond Law Review

Preemption, particularly of the state-city variety, has become a hot topic. State legislatures in many states over the last decade have preempted a wide swath of areas in which cities and counties were previously free to govern. In addition to the sweeping nature and frequency of preemption, the increasingly aggressive methods of enforcing preemption have drawn notice. The threat of fiscal penalties, removal of local officials from office, and even criminal sanctions constitute what one scholar has dubbed the phenomenon of “hyper preemption.”

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Ethical Blindspots In Adoption Lawyering, Malinda L. Seymore Jan 2020

Ethical Blindspots In Adoption Lawyering, Malinda L. Seymore

University of Richmond Law Review

This Article discusses ethical issues relevant to adoption attorneys, as well as the lessons from behavioral ethics that inform the ethical blind spots common in the practice. The Model Rules for attorneys address a number of areas relevant to the complexitiesof adoption practice. Rules relating to competency and confidentiality, conflicts of interest and dual representation, and the lawyer’s roles as counselor as well as advocate are particularly germane. Although much has been written about the dual representation issue in adoption, other issues of professional responsibility in adoption cases have not been as carefully explored. This Article seeks to remedy that. …

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Tailoring Copyright To Protect Artists: Why The United States Needs More Elasticity In Its Protection For Fashion Designs, Robin M. Nagel Jan 2020

Tailoring Copyright To Protect Artists: Why The United States Needs More Elasticity In Its Protection For Fashion Designs, Robin M. Nagel

University of Richmond Law Review

For as long as copyright protection has existed in the United States, protection has never expressly extended to fashion designs because copyright law categorizes fashion designs as “useful articles” that do not receive any protection. In the eighteenth century, this policy perhaps made sense—most clothing was generic, non-decorative, and required little creativity for many of the everyday garments people wore. Clothing in the eighteenth century was commonly made up of useful articles that served very little purpose outside of their utility. However, in today’s society, fashion has transformed into an industry that prizes creativity, ingenuity, innovation, and something more than …

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The Power Of Open: Benefits, Barriers, And Strategies For Integration Of Open Educational Resources, Tian Luo, Kirsten Hostetler, Candice Freeman, Jill Stefaniak Jan 2020

The Power Of Open: Benefits, Barriers, And Strategies For Integration Of Open Educational Resources, Tian Luo, Kirsten Hostetler, Candice Freeman, Jill Stefaniak

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Open Educational Resources (OER) are becoming a significant, mission-driven trend within educational literature. To help address rising costs, instructors and designers are looking to OER to effectively replace traditional instructional content, which requires more than just identify and replace. Drawing from 51 OER studies conducted in countries across the five continents, this systematic literature review explored the empirical themes evident in the current research on a global scale. This review found (1) discoverability, sustainability, and remixing are significant barriers that stand in the way of OER disrupting traditional textbook models; (2) there is no significant difference in learning outcomes when …

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Growing Pains: Using Racketeering Law To Protect Property Rights From State-Sanctioned Marijuana Operations, Marci J. Gracey Jan 2020

Growing Pains: Using Racketeering Law To Protect Property Rights From State-Sanctioned Marijuana Operations, Marci J. Gracey

Oklahoma Law Review

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The Erosion Of Publisher Liability In American Law, Section 230, And The Future Of Online Curation, Brent Skorup, Jennifer Huddleston Jan 2020

The Erosion Of Publisher Liability In American Law, Section 230, And The Future Of Online Curation, Brent Skorup, Jennifer Huddleston

Oklahoma Law Review

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Facebook And The Future Of Fair Housing Online, Jacob Parker Black Jan 2020

Facebook And The Future Of Fair Housing Online, Jacob Parker Black

Oklahoma Law Review

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Innocent But Incarcerated: Reforming Oklahoma’S Criminal Pretrial Procedures To Combat Discrimination Against Indigent Defendants, Bailey Betz Jan 2020

Innocent But Incarcerated: Reforming Oklahoma’S Criminal Pretrial Procedures To Combat Discrimination Against Indigent Defendants, Bailey Betz

Oklahoma Law Review

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Acceleration Of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma In The Low Corona As Measured By The Citizen Cate Experiment, Ignacio Birriel, Jennifer J. Birriel Jan 2020

Acceleration Of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma In The Low Corona As Measured By The Citizen Cate Experiment, Ignacio Birriel, Jennifer J. Birriel

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) Experiment was a new type of citizen science experiment designed to capture a time sequence of white-light coronal observations during totality from 17:16 to 18:48 UT on 2017 August 21. Using identical instruments the CATE group imaged the inner corona from 1 to 2.1 RSun with 1 43 pixels at a cadence of 2.1 s. A slow coronal mass ejection (CME) started on the SW limb of the Sun before the total eclipse began. An analysis of CATE data from 17:22 to 17:39 UT maps the spatial distribution of coronal flow velocities from about …

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Homodimerization And Heterodimerization Requirements Of Acinetobacter Baumannii Sos Response Coregulators Umudab And Ddrr Revealed By Two-Hybrid Analyses, Janelle Hare, Debrah Cook, Jordan Carrington, Kevin Johnson Jan 2020

Homodimerization And Heterodimerization Requirements Of Acinetobacter Baumannii Sos Response Coregulators Umudab And Ddrr Revealed By Two-Hybrid Analyses, Janelle Hare, Debrah Cook, Jordan Carrington, Kevin Johnson

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The multidrug-resistant pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii displays unusual control of its SOS mutagenesis genes, as it does not encode a LexA repressor, but instead employs the UmuDAb repressor and a small protein, DdrR, that is uniquely found in Acinetobacter species. We used bacterial adenylate cyclase two-hybrid analyses to determine if UmuDAb and DdrR coregulation might involve physical interactions. Neither quantitative nor qualitative assays showed UmuDAb interaction with DdrR. DdrR hybrid proteins, however, demonstrated modest headto- tail interactions in a qualitative assay. The similarity of UmuDAb to the homodimer-forming polymerase manager UmuD and LexA repressor proteins suggested that it may form dimers, …

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Examining Contextual Differences In Participant Characteristics And During-Program Occurrences With Drug Court Program Completion, Shondrah T. Nash Jan 2020

Examining Contextual Differences In Participant Characteristics And During-Program Occurrences With Drug Court Program Completion, Shondrah T. Nash

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The study purpose was to compare individuals participating in rural and urban drug courts to examine factors associated with program completion. Secondary data (participant assessment; drug court Management Information System) as well as conviction information from a statewide database were examined for a sample of drug court participants (N = 534). Based on multivariate analysis, for rural participants, two variables were significantly associated with increased program completion: age and outpatient treatment. Conversely, for rural participants, the number of felony/misdemeanor convictions before drug court and receiving an incarceration sanction during drug court were associated with program non-completion. For urban participants, gender …

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Intensive Disc-Reverberation Mapping Of Fairall 9: 1st Year Of Swift & Lco Monitoring, Dirk Grupe Jan 2020

Intensive Disc-Reverberation Mapping Of Fairall 9: 1st Year Of Swift & Lco Monitoring, Dirk Grupe

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

We present results of time-series analysis of the rst year of the Fairall 9 intensive disc-reverberation campaign. We used Swift and the Las Cumbres Observatory global telescope network to continuously monitor Fairall 9 from X-rays to near-infrared at a daily to sub-daily cadence. The cross-correlation function between bands provides ev- idence for a lag spectrum consistent with the / 43 scaling expected for an optically thick, geometrically thin blackbody accretion disc. Decomposing the ux into con- stant and variable components, the variable component's spectral energy distribution is slightly steeper than the standard accretion disc prediction. We nd evidence at the …

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Acceleration Of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma In The Low Corona As Measured By The Citizen Cate Experiment, Jennifer J. Birriel, Ignacio Birriel Jan 2020

Acceleration Of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma In The Low Corona As Measured By The Citizen Cate Experiment, Jennifer J. Birriel, Ignacio Birriel

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) Experiment was a new type of citizen science experiment designed to capture a time sequence of white-light coronal observations during totality from 17:16 to 18:48 UT on 2017 August 21. Using identical instruments the CATE group imaged the inner corona from 1 to 2.1 RSun with 1 43 pixels at a cadence of 2.1 s. A slow coronal mass ejection (CME) started on the SW limb of the Sun before the total eclipse began. An analysis of CATE data from 17:22 to 17:39 UT maps the spatial distribution of coronal flow velocities from about …

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A Structural Equation Modeling Investigation Of The Theory Of Planned Behavior Applied To Accounting Professors’ Formal Enforcement Of Cheating Rules, Stephen S. Brigham Jan 2020

A Structural Equation Modeling Investigation Of The Theory Of Planned Behavior Applied To Accounting Professors’ Formal Enforcement Of Cheating Rules, Stephen S. Brigham

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

This study investigates factors that influence accounting professors’ formal enforcement of academic misconduct rules using the Theory of Planned Behavior (“TPB”) as a theoretical framework. Obtaining a better understanding of formal enforcement will inform efforts to improve it. We emailed survey requests to 8,663 accounting faculty in 35 countries and received a reasonably representative sample of 1,207 (13.9% response rate) complete surveys from 23 countries— exceeding sample-size requirements for structural equation modeling to test our TPB model, which explains 43.3% of the variance in Formal Enforcement Behavior and 52.4% of Intention, consistent with past TPB studies. Results indicate that of …

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Virtual Laboratory Of Industrial Scenarios For Training In The Areas Of Automation And Control, Jorge Alberto Ortega-Moody, William R. Grise Jan 2020

Virtual Laboratory Of Industrial Scenarios For Training In The Areas Of Automation And Control, Jorge Alberto Ortega-Moody, William R. Grise

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The incorporation of new technologies and technological developments in the area of automation and control requires constant training of the personnel involved in such area. The majority of this training begins in the laboratories of educational institutions and training centers for automation personnel. These laboratories are where theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom is applied. Unfortunately, being limited in infrastructure, the use of those laboratories, in the best case scenarios, are restricted to only some actuators and sensors. Industry training is another source in which individual companies have their own internal training programs led by experts in the field. However, …

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Novel Machine Learning Algorithms For Centrality And Cliques Detection In Youtube Social Networks, Craigory Coppola, Heba Elgazzar Jan 2020

Novel Machine Learning Algorithms For Centrality And Cliques Detection In Youtube Social Networks, Craigory Coppola, Heba Elgazzar

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The goal of this research project is to analyze the dynamics of social networks using machine learning techniques to locate maximal cliques and to find clusters for the purpose of identifying a target demographic. Unsupervised machine learning techniques are designed and implemented in this project to analyze a dataset from YouTube to discover communities in the social network and find central nodes. Different clustering algorithms are implemented and applied to the YouTube dataset. The well-known Bron-Kerbosch algorithm is used effectively in this research to find maximal cliques. The results obtained from this research could be used for advertising purposes and …

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Courcelle's Theorem: Overview And Applications, Samuel Frederic Barr Jan 2020

Courcelle's Theorem: Overview And Applications, Samuel Frederic Barr

Honors Papers

Courcelle's Theorem states that any graph property expressible in monadic second order logic can be decidedin O(f(k)n) for graphs of treewidth k. This paper gives a broad overview of how this theorem is proved and outlines tools available to help express graph properties in monadic second order logic.

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The Rise And Fall Of Qigong, William J. Cramer Jan 2020

The Rise And Fall Of Qigong, William J. Cramer

Honors Papers

This capstone engages the history qigong, a Chinese method of spiritual and bodily cultivation. Although similar Daoist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term qigong was invented by the Chinese military in the 1950s. Qigong exploded in popularity in China from the early 1980s to the late 90s. The Chinese state promoted, appropriated, regulated, and ultimately suppressed qigong. On one hand, the Chinese Communist Party wanted to measure and order qigong according to orthodox scientific and political principles, thus processing and controlling the explosion of spirituality known as “Qigong Fever.” Yet on the other hand, both within and …

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The Elections Clause Obligates Congress To Enact A Federal Plan To Secure U.S. Elections Against Foreign Cyberattacks, Suman Malempati Jan 2020

The Elections Clause Obligates Congress To Enact A Federal Plan To Secure U.S. Elections Against Foreign Cyberattacks, Suman Malempati

Emory Law Journal

While foreign adversaries continue to launch cyberattacks aimed at disrupting elections in the United States, Congress has been reluctant to take action. After Russia interfered in the 2016 election, cybersecurity experts articulated clear measures that must be taken to secure U.S. election systems against foreign interference. Yet the federal government has failed to act. Congress’s reticence is based on a misguided notion that greater federal involvement in the conduct of elections unconstitutionally infringes on states’ rights. Both state election officials and certain congressional leaders operate under the assumption that federalism principles grant states primacy in conducting federal elections. This Comment …

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