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Patterns Of Identity, Tameka S. Phillips

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

People interpret and categorize visual cues not only to create a concept of an identity. We assume who a person is, and what their personality is like, based on these visual cues that are in turn plagued with established norms and biases that can connect or divide. Cultural norms, such as gender, sexuality, race, or political standing can be further expressed visually through textile patterns, motifs, and color. Even so, the many cultural signifiers serve only as clues to a person’s identity that encompasses many different cultural aspects, despite common practice to relate to only one. Through my textile statues, …

Talking Trash In The Big Apple: Mitigating Bird Strikes Near The North Shore Marine Transfer Station, Stephan J. Beffre, Brian E. Washburn

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Anthropogenic activities that concentrate wildlife near airports increases the risk of wildlife–aircraft collisions. Placing waste management facilities, natural areas, golf courses, and other landscape features near airports have the potential to attract wildlife hazardous to aviation. We conducted a 3-year study (March 2013–February 2016) to determine if the implementation of a Wildlife Hazard Mitigation Program (WHMP) would influence the bird use of a waste transfer station located near LaGuardia Airport, New York City, New York, USA. We conducted wildlife surveys during 3 phases: (1) no mitigation program and no waste transfer station, (2) active mitigation and no waste transfer station, …

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Population Increases Of Large Birds In North America Pose Challenges For Aviation Safety, Richard A. Dolbeer

Human–Wildlife Interactions

There is a strong correlation between bird mass and the likelihood of aircraft damage during a bird–aircraft collision. Thus, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has established airworthiness standards related to bird mass for engines, airframes, and windshields. Most standards use large (1.8 kg) and medium (1.1 kg) birds as benchmarks (the empennage and certain large turbofan engines use a 3.6-kg bird). There are 20 large (≥1.8 kg) and 16 medium (1.1–1.7 kg) bird species in North America with ≥20 strikes reported for civil aircraft (FAA National Wildlife Strike Database), 1990 to 2018. I analyzed the population changes of these …

Enabling The Best Interests Factors, Adrián E. Alvarez

Faculty Publications

(Excerpt)

For over a century, state courts and other child welfare agencies in the United States have been applying the “best interests of the child standard” to all decision-making concerning children. The standard is also enshrined within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)—a treaty that every nation in the world has ratified except the United States. Notwithstanding its widespread adoption in family law, the standard is, with only a few exceptions, noticeably missing from American laws and policies pertaining to children in the immigration system.

There is a rich literature arguing that children should enjoy special …

The Right Family, Noa Ben-Asher, Margot J. Pollans

Faculty Publications

The family plays a starring role in American law. Families, the law tells us, are special. They merit many state and federal benefits, including tax deductions, testimonial privileges, untaxed inheritance, and parental presumptions. Over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court expanded individual rights stemming from familial relationships. In this Article, we argue that the concept of family in American law matters just as much when it is ignored as when it is featured. We contrast policies in which the family is the key unit of analysis with others in which it is not. Looking at four seemingly …

You Shall Not Pass! How The Dublin System Fueled Fortress Europe, Ashley B. Armstrong

Faculty Publications

This Article examines the recent proliferation of walls and fences in Europe, fueled by the Dublin Regulation’s failure to distribute responsibility for asylum seekers equitably among European states. Legal scholarship does not lack literature bemoaning the failures of the E.U.’s Dublin Regulation—which dictates, generally, that the country where an asylum seeker first enters the E.U. is responsible for processing his or her claim for protection. Yet scholarship on border walls and fences, and what induces European states to construct them, is not prominent in the literature. The critiques lodged against the Dublin Regulation have primarily focused on its futility and …

The Power Of A Positive Tweet, Patricia G. Montana

Faculty Publications

(Excerpt)

I am not naively suggesting that all we need are more positive tweets to solve the inequity problems that still plague many law schools’ treatment and advancement of legal writing faculty. But I do wonder whether more positive tweets from administrators, tenured colleagues, and others can help (and more instantaneously) spread positive feelings, heal past harms, build relationships, forge new connections, and ultimately help create more opportunities for success.

The Facebook Oversight Board: Creating An Independent Institution To Adjudicate Online Free Expression, Kate Klonick

Faculty Publications

For a decade and a half, Facebook has dominated the landscape of digital social networks, becoming one of the most powerful arbiters of online speech. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, over two billion users leverage the platform to post, share, discuss, react to, and access content from all over the globe. Through a system of semipublic rules called “Community Standards,” Facebook has created a body of “laws” and a system of governance that dictate what users may say on the platform. In recent years, as this intricately built system to dispatch the company’s immense private power over …

Real Insider Trading, Michael A. Perino

Faculty Publications

In popular rhetoric, insider trading cases are about leveling the playing field between elite market participants and ordinary investors. Academic critiques vary. Some depict an untethered insider trading doctrine that enforcers use to expand their power and enhance their discretion. Others see enforcers beset with agency cost problems who bring predominantly simple, easily resolved cases to create the veneer of vigorous enforcement. The debate has, to this point, been based mostly on anecdote and conjecture rather than empirical evidence. This Article addresses that gap by collecting extensive data on 465 individual defendants in civil, criminal, and administrative actions to assess …

Expression Of Soluble, Active, Fluorescently Tagged Hephaestin In Cos And Cho Cell Lines, Eli̇f Si̇bel Aslan, Kenneth N. White, Basharut A. Syed, Kaila S. Srai, Robert W. Evans

Turkish Journal of Biology

Hephaestin (Hp) is a trans-membrane protein, which plays a critical role in intestinal iron absorption. Hp was originally identified as the gene responsible for the phenotype of sex-linked anaemia in the sla mouse. The mutation in the sla protein causes accumulation of dietary iron in duodenal cells, causing severe microcytic hypochromic anaemia. Although mucosal uptake of dietary iron is normal, export from the duodenum is inhibited. Hp is homologous to ceruloplasmin (Cp), a member of the family of multi copper ferroxidases (MCFs) and possesses ferroxidase activity that facilitates iron release from the duodenum and load onto the serum iron transport …

The Inhibitory Effect Of Melatonin On Osteoclastogenesis Of Raw 264.7 Cells In Low Concentrations Of Rankl And Mcsf, Hala Jarrar, Damla Çeti̇n Altindal, Menemşe Gümüşdereli̇oğlu

Turkish Journal of Biology

RAW 264.7 cells are one of the most recommended cell lines for investigating the activity and differentiation of osteoclasts. These cells differentiate into osteoclasts in the presence of two critical components: receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL) and macrophage colony stimulating factor (MCSF). Melatonin (MEL) hormone has recently become one of the small molecules used in the field of bone regeneration and bone disease treatment, as it has the ability to inhibit the differentiation of osteoclasts directly by suppression of the NF-κB signaling pathway. The main aim of the current study is to determine sufficient RANKL/MCSF concentrations …

A Framework To Activate The Health And Safety Regulations In The Egyptian Construction Industry, Mostafa Adel Elsebaei, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman, Omar Elnawawy, Mohammed Badawy

Architectural Engineering

Purpose

The construction industry is considered one of the most dangerous industries especially in developing countries such as Egypt. Although safety in Egypt is regulated by mainly four pivotal legislations, namely, Law No. 12 (2003) and Ministerial Decrees No. 211, 126 and 134, construction accident records in Egypt are high. Accordingly, this paper aims to develop a framework to activate the health and safety regulations in the Egyptian construction industry.

Design/methodology/approach

To achieve this aim, a research methodology consisting of a literature review and a survey questionnaire was developed to accomplish three objectives. First, a literature review was used to …

Achieving Sustainability Through Reducing Construction Waste During The Design Process: A Value Management Perspective, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman, Sherouk Mohamed Abdelrahim

Architectural Engineering

Purpose:

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of Value Management towards achieving sustainability through reducing the construction waste during the design process.

Design/methodology/approach

To achieve the abovementioned aim, a research methodology consisting literature review and survey questionnaire is designed to achieve the following objectives: first, building a comprehensive understanding of the research topic through reviewing literature related to the nature of the construction industry, waste in construction, sustainability, the design phase and Value Management; second, presenting and analysing two case studies to validate the role of Value Management towards reducing waste in construction projects; third, conducting …

On "Being There" In A Pandemic: Are Classrooms Without Bodies Still "Real" Places Of Learning?, Lauren Angelone

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

In March 2020, schools and universities were abruptly shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as abruptly as they shut down, they were moved to fully online instruction. It was and continues to be an adjustment from classrooms with bodies to online classrooms without bodies, and now in-person classrooms with distanced masked bodies, or some combination of the two. As such, a discourse has appeared decrying the absence of what we know was the “real” educational environment. In this commentary, I use a series of vignettes to illuminate the ontological and epistemological dilemma of this discourse and then bring …

From The Virocene To The Lovecene Epoch: Multispecies Justice As Critical Praxis For Virocene Disruptions And Vulnerabilities, Jude Fernando

Sustainability and Social Justice

In the Virocene epoch, global pandemics such as COVID-19 disrupt the world order organized by capitalism and racial privilege, making clear the unsustainability of ‘normal’ ways of organizing both society and nature. Despite its failure to address these disruptions, the existing capitalist-racist system attempts to reproduce itself, posing greater risks of disease, inequalities, and injustice to the most vulnerable human and nonhuman populations. The Virocene epoch makes these workings visible, and challenges both hegemonic and counterhegemonic ways of organizing human-nature relations. Political ecology requires new emancipatory theoretical-political strategies firmly grounded in a theory of justice that embodies social and ecological …

Keterkaitan Spasial Di Enam Negara Asia: Analisis Input-Output Dunia, M. Muchdie, M. Handry Imansyah, Socia Prihawantoro

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pembangunan Indonesia

This paper presents spatial linkages on calculations of spill-over and feed-back effects of World input-output tables, which is aggregated specifically into six-Asian countries includes China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, plus Australia, United States, and the Rest of the World. The results showed that, firstly output multipliers in six Asian countries tend to increase during 2000–2014, indicating a consistent economic growth. Secondly, except China, output multipliers occurred in other countries tend to increase. Thirdly, in 2000, the United States and Japan were two countries receiving highest output spill-over. However, in year 2014, most of output spill-over moved to China. …

วาทกรรมชุมชนต่อความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็ก ในพื้นที่ชุมชนแห่งหนึ่งในภาคเหนือของไทย, นิตยา พันธ์งาม, ขนิษฐา นันทบุตร

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

วัตถุประสงค์: เพื่อศึกษากระบวนการสร้างวาทกรรมความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กในชุมชน และผลกระทบของวาทกรรมต่อความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กในชุมชน

แบบแผนการวิจัย: การศึกษานี้ดำเนินการวิจัยโดยใช้การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพแบบวาทกรรมวิเคราะห์เชิงวิพากษ์

วิธีดำเนินการวิจัย: ผู้ให้ข้อมูล จำนวน 90 คน ประกอบด้วย 1) ผู้ให้ข้อมูลหลัก เป็นผู้ที่มีความรอบรู้ข้อมูลอย่างลึกซึ้ง จำนวน 84 คน ได้แก่ ปราชญ์ ผู้นำชุมชน บุคลากรสุขภาพ แกนนำกลุ่มองค์กร ครูในศูนย์พัฒนาเด็กเล็กและในโรงเรียน ผู้นำศาสนา หญิงตั้งครรภ์ แม่หลังคลอด สมาชิกในครอบครัวแม่และเด็ก อาสาสมัคร ผู้บริหารและเจ้าหน้าที่ในองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่น แกนนำศูนย์พัฒนาครอบครัว และ 2) ผู้ให้ข้อมูลทั่วไป 6 คน ได้แก่ สมาชิกในชุมชนและผู้ที่เกี่ยวข้องในการดูแลแม่และเด็ก คัดเลือกแบบเจาะจงและแบบสโนว์บอลล์ เก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลโดยการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก การสังเกตแบบมีส่วนร่วม สนทนากลุ่ม วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลโดยวิธีการวิเคราะห์วาทกรรมเชิงวิพากษ์และวิเคราะห์เชิงเนื้อหา

ผลการวิจัย: ผลการศึกษาแบ่งเป็น 3 ส่วน ได้แก่ 1) ความหมายของความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็ก เป็นกระบวนที่สะท้อนถึงการตีความและสะท้อนอัตลักษณ์ความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กผ่านมุมมองเชิงวัฒนธรรมของทั้งแม่ ครอบครัว และผู้ที่มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องในการดูแลแม่และเด็กในชุมชน โดยถูกถ่ายทอดในรูปแบบของภาษาและใช้สื่อสารในชุมชนพบว่ามีความหมายเชื่อมโยงกัน 2) วาทกรรมความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กเป็นกระบวนการสะท้อนถึงการแสดงออกทางความคิดความเชื่อผ่านคำพูด ภาษาหรือวาทกรรม มี 2 อัตลักษณ์ คือ วาทกรรมเสริมพลังอำนาจและวาทกรรมพึ่งพา และ 3) ผลกระทบของวาทกรรมความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กเป็นภาคปฏิบัติทางสังคมวัฒนธรรมของวาทกรรมที่ทำให้เกิดการปรับเปลี่ยนพฤติกรรมความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กที่เหมาะสม รวมทั้งการเกิดแนวทางใหม่ในการดูแลแม่และเด็กในชุมชน

สรุป: ผลการศึกษาสะท้อนให้เห็นองค์ความรู้ใหม่ที่ว่าความหมายของความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กมีความเชื่อมโยงกันเมื่อถูกสะท้อนผ่านมุมมองเชิงวัฒนธรรม และกระบวนการตีความหมายของแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กที่ถูกถ่ายทอดในรูปแบบภาษานั้นสะท้อนให้เห็นถึงการผลิตสร้างวาทกรรมใหม่ที่เป็นวาทกรรมเสริมพลังอำนาจอันนำไปสู่การปรับเปลี่ยนพฤติกรรมการดูแลสุขภาพของแม่ที่ดีและแนวทางในการดูแลแม่และเด็กในชุมชน ซึ่งพยาบาลและผดุงครรภ์ผู้ที่มีบทบาสำคัญในการขับเคลื่อนการพัฒนาระบบการดูแลแม่และเด็กสามารถนำใช้เป็นเครื่องมือในการเสริมสร้างความเข้มแข็งของชุมชนในการพัฒนาระบบการดูแลแม่และเด็กและส่งเสริมความเป็นแม่และการเลี้ยงดูเด็กอย่างเป็นระบบได้

Barriers To Digital Equity: A Case Study Of King County, Supanee Mclean, Victoria Frazier, Tony Vo

Educational and Organizational Learning and Leadership Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore how schools educate students in the use of digital technology. Using a concurrent mixed methods case study approach, the researchers identified potential barriers for schools in educating students in the use of digital technology. Additionally, this study identified factors that provide effective use of technology in schools, which can educate students with the necessary skills to serve their community and society in the future. Researchers sampled school leaders and district administrators of all school districts within King County. Data was collected from a document review and online survey questions to conduct a …

A Document Analysis Of Leadership Language That Enhances Family-School Collaboration In Efforts To Narrow The Achievement Gap, Andrew Johnson, Daryl Wright

Educational and Organizational Learning and Leadership Dissertations

Complex problems such as the achievement gap need to be presented to all the stakeholders in the school community to utilize their combined expertise. This requires a specific language to encourage all the stakeholders in the process. Effective leaders achieve this through the principles of transformative leadership by communicating in a way that motivates, challenges, and encourages cooperation. This qualitative comparative case study utilized a document analysis to understand the barriers and solutions to family–school collaboration and leadership solutions to narrow the achievement gap in a highly resourced district. This district recently passed an equity initiative that called for the …

Using Mediation To Get Nhl Players Back In The Winter Olympics, Jared Brover

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

In the early years of the Winter Olympics ("Olympics"), participation in the games was limited to amateur athletes. That changed in 1986 when rules were put in place, which changed who determined eligibility to compete in the Olympics. Eventually, as a result of such a shift, professional athletes began participating in the Olympics and they brought greater excitement to the games as fans were given another opportunity to see their favorite athletes compete at a high level. However, giving professional athletes the opportunity to join the games created unintended conflicts. For example, the dispute between a given country's professional league …

A Different Approach To The National Gun Control Debate: Whether Direct Negotiations Between Interest Groups Can Facihtate The Creation Of Meaningful Legislative Policy, Arielle Kraus

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This Note aims to shed light on a different approach to the national gun debate. The Background of this Note will explore the origin of the gun debate from both sides, the evolution of both the Gun Rights Lobby, spearheaded by the NRA, and the Gun Control Lobby, and the ways in which their evolutions have impacted the national debate today. The current state of the gun debate addresses the relationship between the polarity of the extreme positions and the political climate. Moderate democratic voices have seemed to disappear altogether, and in their place, extremists on both sides have filled …

The Ongoing Speculation About Smart Contracts: Smart Enough To Replace Third Party Arbitrators, Or Is "Smart" Just A Misnomer?, Rakhil Kalantarova

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

Although there is unmatched publicity about blockchain all over the world, the purpose of this Note is to provide a narrower insight into the fundamental importance of blockchain to the evolution of smart contracts. It will also introduce a proposition that oracles should be granted the authority to serve as arbitrators in mandatory Online Dispute Resolution ("ODR") and advise a step-by-step process to achieve that end. Section II of this Note will explore the background information and intricacies of blockchain technology, along with the realm of the purposes of smart contracts. It will also attempt to explain the benefits of …

These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends: When Livestreaming Turns Deadly, Who Takes Responsibility?, Joseph Palumbo

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Wolves In Sheep’S Clothing: How Religious Exemption Laws For Discriminatory Private Agencies Violate The Constitution And Harm Lgbtq+ Families, Kharis Lund

Student Articles & Notes

For LGBTQ+ parents who live in states where a select few faith-based private agencies control the placement of a majority of the state’s children, religious organizations that refuse to place children with LGBTQ+ prospective parents pose a particularly concerning barrier to fostering and adoption. To turn away otherwise qualified prospective parents solely based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is to further deprive a system that is already burdened of one of its key components, directly antithetical to the primary goal of the child welfare system. Although religious child welfare agencies have played, and continue to play, an important …

Why Can't We All Just Cher?: Drag Celebrity Impersonators Versus An Ever-Expanding Right Of Publicity, Emily Hoenig

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Legal Graffiti And Copyright: How The Law Falls Short In Protecting This Important Artform, Kayla Epstein

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

The note argues that copyright law inadequately protects legal graffiti artists, particularly due to the abstract and public nature of their work, which complicates infringement claims. It critiques the current legal framework, including the tests for substantial similarity and the idea-expression dichotomy, for disadvantaging graffiti artists. The analysis highlights the need for legal reforms, such as the use of expert witnesses and enhanced protections under the DMCA, to better safeguard graffiti art and align copyright law with its purpose of incentivizing creativity.

Allelic Variation In Rice Fertilization Independent Endosperm 1 Contributes To Grain Width Under High Night Temperature Stress, Balpreet K. Dhatt, Puneet Paul, Jaspreet Sandhu, Waseem Hussain, Larissa Irvin, Feiyu Zhu, Maria Arlene Adviento-Borbe, Argelia Lorence, Paul Staswick, Hongfeng Yu, Gota Morota, Harkamal Walia

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

A higher minimum (night-time) temperature is considered a greater limiting factor for reduced rice yield than a similar increase in maximum (daytime) temperature. While the physiological impact of high night temperature (HNT) has been studied, the genetic and molecular basis of HNT stress response remains unexplored.

We examined the phenotypic variation for mature grain size (length and width) in a diverse set of rice accessions under HNT stress. Genome-wide association analysis identified several HNT-specific loci regulating grain size as well as loci that are common for optimal and HNT stress conditions.

A novel locus contributing to grain width under HNT …

Impacts Of The Reproductive Cycle On The Microbiome: Lessons From Peromyscus Maniculatus, Stephania Jimenez-Castro

McNair Scholars

This low-cost pilot study performed in an animal model attempts to answer the question of whether the estrous cycle affects skin bacteria population size and diversity. In the study, deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) are models because the University of Northern Colorado maintains a colony at the animal research facility, and the rodents have a conveniently short reproductive cycle. Vaginal swabs and flushes were collected for two full estrous cycles to obtain cells for determination of the phase of the cycle and flora samples to examine diversity and population size. We witnessed the vaginal flora fluctuate throughout the entire cycle …

Assessing Latinx Colorism And Skin Tone Dating Preferences, Yessica M. Berumen Martinez

McNair Scholars

Colorism is favoring by individuals of lighter skin over darker skin. This differs from racism because racism is discrimination directed towards racial or ethnic minorities, while colorism typically refers to within-group prejudice. The purpose out of this study is to find out whether and how Latinx individuals’ self-perceived skin color, family, and friends influence their dating skin color preference. 145 respondents ages 18 and over completed the In-group Colorism Scale by Harvey, Banks, and Tennial (2017) and answered additional questions on skin tone perceptions on dating, and parent and friend influences. There was no significant connection between self-perceived skin color …