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Minimum And Maximum Protection Under International Copyright Treaties, Jane C. Ginsburg

Faculty Scholarship

This Comment addresses minimum and maximum substantive international protections set out in the Berne Convention and subsequent multilateral copyright accords. While much scholarship has addressed Berne minima, the maxima have generally received less attention. It first discusses the general structure of the Berne Convention, TRIPS, and the WCT regarding these contours, and then analyzes their application to the recent “press publishers’ right” promulgated in the 2019 EU Digital Single Market Directive.

Security Assessment Framework For The Internet Of Medical Things Solutions, Faisal Sultan Alsubaei

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The emergence of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has introduced a monumental change in facilitating the management of diseases, improving disease diagnosis and treatment methods, and reducing healthcare cost and errors. In fact, having several connected devices at each bed is currently the norm in most hospitals in the United States of America. IoMT solutions are not limited to hospital devices alone: IoMT solutions for outpatients, such as over-the-counter and in-home medical devices, are becoming increasingly prevalent. This change has greatly impacted the quality of healthcare for both patients and all frontline healthcare workers.However, the IoMT is far from …

Scalable And Secure Big Data Iot System Based On Multifactor Authentication And Lightweight Cryptography, Saleh Atiewi, Amer Al-Rahayfeh, Muder Almiani, Salman Yussof, Omar Alfandi, Ahed Abugabah, Yaser Jararweh

All Works

© 2013 IEEE. Organizations share an evolving interest in adopting a cloud computing approach for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Integrating IoT devices and cloud computing technology is considered as an effective approach to storing and managing the enormous amount of data generated by various devices. However, big data security of these organizations presents a challenge in the IoT-cloud architecture. To overcome security issues, we propose a cloud-enabled IoT environment supported by multifactor authentication and lightweight cryptography encryption schemes to protect big data system. The proposed hybrid cloud environment is aimed at protecting organizations' data in a highly secure manner. …

Corporate Control, Dual Class, And The Limits Of Judicial Review, Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani

Faculty Scholarship

Companies with a dual-class structure have increasingly been involved in high-profile battles over the reallocation of control rights. Google, for instance, sought to entrench its founders’ control by recapital­izing from a dual-class into a triple-class structure. The CBS board, in contrast, attempted to dilute its controlling shareholder by distributing a voting stock dividend that would empower minority shareholders to block a merger it perceived to be harmful. These cases raise a fundamental question at the heart of corporate law: What is the proper judicial response to self-dealing claims regarding reallocations of corporate control rights?

This Article shows that the reallocation …

Decentralized Telemedicine Framework For A Smart Healthcare Ecosystem, Ahed Abugabah, Nishara Nizamuddin, Ahmad Ali Alzubi

All Works

The healthcare sector is one of the most rapidly growing sectors globally. With the ever-growing technology, patient care, regulatory compliance, and digital transformation, there is an increased need for healthcare sectors to collaborate with all stakeholders – both within the healthcare ecosystem and in concurring industries. In recent times, telemedicine has proven to provide high quality, affordable, and predominantly adapted healthcare services. However, telemedicine suffers from several risks in implementation, such as data breach, restricted access across medical fraternity, incorrect diagnosis and prescription, fraud, and abuse. In this work, introduce blockchain-based framework that would unlock the future of the healthcare …

2020 Spring - Veterans Upward Bound Newsletter, Veterans Upward Bound, East Tennessee State University

Veterans Upward Bound Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Benzimidazole Containing Acetamide Derivatives Attenuate Neuroinflammation And Oxidative Stress In Ethanol-Induced Neurodegeneration, Muhammad Imran, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Humaira Nadeem, Fawad Ali Shah, Muzaffar Abbas, Shagufta Naz, Arif Ullah Khan, Shupeng Li

All Works

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Oxidative stress-induced neuroinflammation is the prominent feature of neurodegenerative disorders, and is characterized by a gradual decline of structure and function of neurons. Many biochemical events emerge thanks to the result of this neurodegeneration, and ultimately provoke neuroinflammation, activation of microglia, and oxidative stress, leading to neuronal death. This cascade not only explains the complexity of events taking place across different stages, but also depicts the need for more effective therapeutic agents. The present study was designed to investigate the neuroprotective effects of newly synthesized benzimidazole containing acetamide derivatives, 3a (2-(4-methoxyanilino)-N-[1-(4-methylbenzene-1-sulfonyl)-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl] …

2-(Di­Phenyl­Methyl­Idene)-2,3-Di­Hydro-1h-Inden-1-One, Tao Zhang, Vilmar Bandero, Tom Mccabe, Neil Frankish, Helen Sheridan

Articles

In the title mol­ecule, C₂₂H₁₆O, the indanone ring system is approximately planar with a dihedral angle between the fused rings of 5.13 (14)°. Two benzene rings are linked together at one side of a double bond, sitting on either side of the indanone ring system and making dihedral angles of 70.30 (12) and 44.74 (13)° with it. In the crystal, hydrogen bonding is not present, but weak C—H⋯π or π–π inter­actions occur and mol­ecules form a sheet-like structure in the bc plane.

Adaptive Background Correction Of Crystal Image Datasets: Towards Automated Process Control, Luke Kiernan, Ian Jones, Lauri Kurki, Patrick J. Cullen, Toufic El Arnaout

Articles

Improving the data descriptor calculation of crystal’s physical properties requires sophisticated imaging techniques and algorithms. It has been possible to construct 2D population balance models benefiting from characteristic measurements of both crystal’s length and width, compared to the single representative sizes used in 1D models. Our aim is to ameliorate the procedure of determining shape (and not only size) factors, in an automated fashion and directly from the process, for implementation in future models. Here, approaches suitable for real-time applications were employed including engineered imaging sensors and adaptive algorithms. We described the latter in detail for varying 2D image datasets. …

Pilot Scale Pyrolysis Of Activated Sludge Waste From Milk Processing Factory, Marzena Kwapinska, Alen Horvat, Yupeng Liu, James Leahy

Articles

The majority of the sludge from the treatment of wastewater in milk processing plants is land spread. The drawbacks of land spreading include local oversupply due to high transport costs, which results in sludge being spread on lands in the vicinity of the dairy factories. Local oversupply can lead to accumulation of certain substances in soil through annual application over many years. Therefore, in the long term, there is a need for alternative methods to recover energy and nutrients from increasing volumes of sludge generated from dairy processing. Pyrolysis ofers a potential alternative to land spreading, which can reduce health …

Dissipation Of Pesticide Residues On Grapes And Strawberries Using Plasma-Activated Water, Chaitanya Sarangapani, Laurence Scally, Miroslav Gulan, P. J. Cullen

Articles

In this study, we present a novel atmospheric air plasma discharge for the generation of plasma-activated water (PAW), with the aim of reducing pesticide residues on fresh fruit. For this purpose, a large discharge volume pin-to-plate cold plasma reactor was employed. The pesticide-spiked grapes and strawberries were processed with varying PAW concentrations to study their efficacies for pesticide degradation combined with an evaluation of any induced changes in key nutritional and quality attributes. The results suggest that the reduction of chlorpyrifos was 79% on grapes and 69% on strawberries while that of carbaryl was 86% on grapes and 73% on …

Developmental Biology (Embryology) Course Syllabus And Policies, Steelman Library, Todd D. Schraw Dr.

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Biochemistry 2, Steelman Library, Todd Schraw Dr

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

The Unfinished Business Of Brown And School Integration, Anthony Gingerelli

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Maintaining A High Degree Of Research Productivity At A Pui As Your Career Advances, George C. Shields, Scott E. Feller

Chemistry Publications

In this perspective, two experienced academic administrators who are computational chemists discuss strategies for how to maintain an active research program at a pre- dominately undergraduate institution as your career progresses. More responsibility equates to less time for research, so planning for research to remain a priority is essential. We all have the same amount of time, so figuring out how to use yours bet- ter is the key to remaining active. Professional organizations such as Council on Undergraduate Research, consortia of computational chemists such as Molecular Education and Research Consortium in computational chemistRY and Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium, …

Twenty Years Of Exceptional Success: The MOlecular EDucation And REsearch COnsortium In UNdergraduate Computational ChemistRy (Mercury)” , George C. Shields

Chemistry Publications

The molecular education and research consortium in undergraduate computational chemistry (MERCURY) consortium, established in 2000, has contributed greatly to the scientific development of faculty and undergraduates. The MERCURY faculty peer-reviewed publication rate from 2001 to 2019 of 1.7 papers/faculty/year is 3.4 times the rate of the physical science faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions. We have worked with over 1000 students on research projects since 2001, and 75% of our undergraduate research students have been under-represented in chemistry, either female or students of color. Approximately half of our alumni attend graduate school for the purpose of obtaining advanced degrees in STEM …

The Effects Of Mixed-Initiative Visualization Systems On Exploratory Data Analysis, Alvitta Ottley, Adam Kern

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

The primary purpose of information visualization is to act as a window between a user and the data. Historically, this has been accomplished via a single-agent framework: the only decision-maker in the relationship between visualization system and analyst is the analyst herself. Yet this framework arose not from first principles, but a necessity. Before this decade, computers were limited in their decision-making capabilities, especially in the face of large, complex datasets and visualization systems. This paper aims to present the design and evaluation of a mixed-initiative system that aids the user in handling large, complex datasets and dense visualization systems. …

Reading The Reader: Analyzing Depictions Of Male Readers In Serial Victorian Fiction, Ashton Foley-Schramm

Open Access Dissertations

During the nineteenth century, mass literacy was taking hold in Britain, spurred on by the widespread availability of printed materials, crossing class and gender borders as never before. Most literary scholars concerned with reading in nineteenth-century England investigate the female reader within fiction, analyzing the various cultural, especially social and gender-specific, aspects of how, where, why, and what women read. This project addresses the gap in our knowledge created by this focus on the female reader in Victorian fiction: the position and function of the male reader. It argues that concerns over too much reading, or not reading the “right” …

Structured, Individualized, Video-Based Coaching To Improve Technical Skill Acquisition, Kenneth A. Lynch Jr.

Open Access Dissertations

In the current era of a reduced hourly workweek and competency-based curriculum, it is becoming increasingly clear that the cognitive apprenticeship model of training, which dominated the surgical discipline for well over a century, may no longer be the single best strategy to train the surgeons of today. There needs to be a multifaceted approach to surgical residency training, especially with regards to improving technical skill acquisition. Video-based-coaching is quickly being adapted for use in many training programs due to its low cost and broad range of applications including self-assessment, operative evaluations, and bench model training. The challenge for most …

On The Havel-Hakimi Residue Of Degree Sequences And Its Relation To The Independence Number, Benjamin Lantz

Open Access Dissertations

The Havel-Hakimi residue (or residue) of a graph is the number of zeros left after iteratively applying the Havel-Hakimi algorithm to a degree sequence. Favaron, Mahéo, and Saclé showed that the residue is a lower bound on the independence number. Determining how good of a bound this is remains an open question, including in what cases the bound is realized.

This dissertation looks to help answer when the bound is realized by examining the Maxine heuristic, which reduces a graph G, to an independent set of size M(G). It has been shown that given a graph …

Impact Of Brand Recognition In Psychological Test Selection: Identification And Corrective Procedure, Aaron M. Baker

Open Access Dissertations

The accuracy of psychological assessment may be determined largely by the quality of the test(s) selected; however, in clinical practice, tests may be selected impressionistically, and without sufficient consideration of test validity. Appreciating that not only psychometric standing, but also pragmatic considerations may be of import in test selection may help explain why surveys of test usage have not necessarily shown robust associations between frequency of test use and psychometric quality. The primary goal of this dissertation was to examine whether brand recognition (BR; presence/absence of the name of a well-known test) may sometimes diminish attention to psychometric qualities, and …

Methodology For Underwater Deployment From A Host Vehicle, Brian Caferro, Casie Castell, Trevor Ide, Mark Keenan

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Projects

Team 10, the Sea Raccoon, is responsible for developing a methodology for the release of several deployables from an underwater host vehicle. The sponsor for this project is the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, NUWC. The project demanded a methodology for launching a deployable from an underwater host vehicle. The deployables are approximated generally as cylinders due to the secret nature of the actual payload.

Beginning with an extensive analysis of the problem and its definition, the design process for the first prototype took place over the four months of the 2019 Fall Semester at the University of Rhode Island. In …

Maximize Efficiency And Minimize Wastewater, Robert Tampellini, John Robert Gimler, Robert Hall, Cody Kwasniewski

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Projects

The boiler blowdown project, sponsored by Amgen, is a multi-phase project that will include analyses of thermodynamics, systems usage, and the piping system. At the end of this project, the current blowdown system Amgen has will be transformed from an intermittent system to a continuous system. This project will also include the integration of a heat recovery system. This was determined based off of a previous design that was utilized at Amgen’s facilities before transferring to the current intermittent blowdown system. The purpose of the heat recovery system will be to extract the majority of the heat from the blowdown …

Faraday Generator From Periodic Wave Motion, Max Boden, Oliver Capalbo, Danna Kimmelman, Valentina Rossell

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Projects

Team 12 was selected by Anthony Baro of E2SOL located in Fall River, Massachusetts to help them develop a product with given customer specifications. Recent market research has shown that the design of a buoy equipped with sensors would appeal to a larger consumer base if it were able to perform reliably during prolonged overcast conditions. Today, most buoys today are powered by solar panels. This sparked an effort to utilize a concept well documented in physics; the Faraday type generator, powered by the kinetic energy and potential energy of a passing wave. The team researched the topic, collected a …

Student Collaborations In Introductory Statistics Courses; A Network Study, Isabel S. Nowinowski

Open Access Master's Theses

Generation Z, also known as iGen, (individuals born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s), characterized as tech-savvy, independent, and visual, is beginning to graduate college and enter the workforce. While significant research effort has focused on understanding the learning preferences of the preceding Millennial generation (individuals born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s), less is known about the way technology has influenced the educational expectations and learning preferences of Generation Z. A deeper and broader understanding of the way this generation learns would allow universities to modify and enhance course structures and teaching methodologies to suit this incoming generation of …

The Impacts Of Hearing Loss On Social-Emotional Health, Lili Lan Lebrun Visgilio

Open Access Master's Theses

According to the World Health Organization, over 900 million people are expected to have disabling hearing loss by 2050. Most studies about hearing loss published thus far have focused on the impacts hearing loss has on adults above the age of 60. However, this study examines the relationship between hearing loss and social-emotional health in adults between the ages of 21 and 50. Literature describing the impact of hearing loss on the social-emotional health of young and middle aged adults is sparse. This study uses data from the 2011 wave of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) obtained via the …

Friction Compensation Using Linear Control Methods, Florian Meiners

Open Access Master's Theses

Friction is one of the most frequently appearing sources of problems in mechanical systems. While several controller designs exist that successfully mitigate or compensate the friction effects in an application, they usually rely on a thoroughly identified model. The focus of this work is on verifying the suitability of a linear dual-loop controller for friction compensation in an arbitrary system. It does not require detailed estimation of a friction model for the design. The controller is complemented by a Luenberger observer, to improve the quality of state feedback.

Based on different model reduction approaches, the control architecture is effectively applied …

Fundamental Understanding And Applications Of Nanoemulsions For Ultrasensitive Electrochemical Analysis, Shashika Gunathilaka Sabaragamuwe Jayasundarakorale

Open Access Master's Theses

We demonstrate a new electroanalytical approach for the ultrasensitive electrochemical analysis using nanoemulsions (NEs) uniquely combined with single entity electrochemistry (SEE). First, we investigate the relationship between the structure and relevant electrochemical activity of NEs. We employ SEE to elucidate the interfacial structure of NEs and their corresponding electrochemical activities, which cannot be unequivocally defined by general microscopic techniques. Throughout this work on nanostructural effect of NEs, we could optimize the most suitable composition of NEs, showing facile electron transfer kinetics across the NE interface as well as a high monodispersity. Particularly, the application of SEE for optimized NEs allowed …

Enhanced Visual Bridge Inspection Practices For An Improved Bridge Management System, Carl Constantin Falter

Open Access Master's Theses

The bridge infrastructure in the United States, and particularly in Rhode Island, has deteriorated over the last decades. The state of Rhode Island is placed last in the United States’ bridge condition ranking. To counteract the steady deterioration, it is necessary to have an overview of the current bridge conditions by implementing a Bridge Management System. Bridge inspections are the first entity in an effective Bridge Management System since they assess the bridge condition on site.

This thesis investigates two technologies that are promising to enhance and digitize the bridge inspection processes. Augmented Reality (AR) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) …

Analysis Of The Traffic Flows Caused By The Kingston Campus Of The University Of Rhode Island, Morten Flesser

Open Access Master's Theses

Like many universities, the University of Rhode Island is facing challenges dealing with traffic volume, due to its growth over the last twenty years and the lack of transportation infrastructure to provide the capacity it needs as it exists currently. For the University of Rhode Island, Single-Occupant Vehicles (SOVs) comprise approximately 90% of those traveling to the university, and very few use alternative means of transportation such as public transit or bicycles, which exacerbate the trend of congested roadways adjacent to the campus during peak hours of an academic semester. This thesis addresses these consequences and the traffic burden with …