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College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Spring 2020, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects

Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs, and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge. The senior design competition helps focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects on …

Sustainable Tourism Recommendations: Southern Maine, Charlotte Aucoin, Taylor Freehan, Jennifer Hatch, Ginny Majka

Thinking Matters Symposium

Through the lens of sustainable tourism one can assess the impacts and benefits of economic, environmental and social variables on communities and the landscape in order to manage them and create responsible tourism opportunities. In this poster, data from economic development and tourism practitioners in the Greater Portland region is aggregated into suggested tourism policy and planning strategies for Southern Maine.

Apparatgeist And Mobile Communication: Considering Interpersonal Communication Practices, Lisa Enright

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mobile communication is embedded into our daily life increasing our connection to social networks. The development of mobile communication occurred during the second half of the twentieth century and has become domesticated into everyday life. One consequence of the widespread adoption of mobile communication device use is an increase in connectivity. This increase in connection has led to a shift in interpersonal relationships. People now must be aware of when to connect and disconnect to develop meaningful relationships in private, public, and social realms. This project seeks an understanding of how the consequence of increased connectivity and the development of …

Assessing The Need For Mental Health Interventions Within The Law Enforcement Community, Lizzi Varga Reinard

Art Therapy Counseling Final Research Projects

This research explored mental health interventions within the police. There is a need for mental health in law enforcement (O’Hara, 2018; Blue Help, 2019; Waters & Ussery, 2007; Mohandie & Hatchert, 1999; Miller, 1999; Violanti, 2010). Having been a law enforcement officer myself, I have experienced the stigma and the need of mental health care. I used a cross-sectional survey design to obtain further information on police officers in a Midwest county in the United States to assess the need for mental health interventions. I created response artwork prior to obtaining the survey results (to help assess and sort through …

Application For Student Safety In Harrisonburg, Clara R. Peirce

Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current

Through the development of a smartphone application specific to the James Madison University (JMU) campus, this project confronts and combats the unique safety concerns that students in Harrisonburg are likely to face. This app addresses community-specific threats and scenarios while bolstering JMU’s current system of alerts in a preventative, proactive manner. This project meets is preventative and proactive goals through an analysis of existing measures, research, and critique of similar initiatives. This project’s creative brief is guided by a SWOT analysis and assessment of the target audience and the intended area of implementation. The application is intended for usage by …

Analyzing The Onset And Resolution Of Nonstate Conflict In The Middle East & North Africa, Emily A. Barbaro

Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current

By applying structural-functionalist theories of deviance and opposition, this thesis deconstructs nonstate mobilization in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Using data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, the quantitative analysis interpreted both group and leader behavior in conflict situations to determine factors that influenced conflict onset and resolution. The quasipoisson regression analysis of group behavior suggested that polity and state capacity were both significant predictors of violent and nonviolent mobilization. The negative binomial regression of regime behavior suggested that civilian casualties were the most significant predictor of a government response to nonstate mobilization. Ultimately, the …

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 13), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

“We Can’T Just Throw Our Children Away”: A Discussion Of The Term-Of-Years Sentencing Of Juveniles And What Can Be Done In Texas, Anjelica Harris

Texas A&M Law Review

In the words of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, children are different. The issue of how to sentence juvenile offenders has long been controversial. Although psychology acknowledges the connection between incomplete juvenile brain development and increased criminality, the justice system lags behind in how it handles juvenile offenders. A prime example is the case of Bobby Bostic, who at the age of sixteen was charged with eighteen offenses and sentenced to 241 years in prison. This sentence, known as a term-of-years or virtual life sentence, essentially guarantees that no matter what Bobby does or who he proves himself to be …

Vol.47 N.42 May 7th 2020, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Mobility, Indigeneity, And The Creolizing Classroom, Josué R. López

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival Abstract Submitted

One Step Away: How Hernández Ii Signals The Elimination Of Bivens, Daniel Blair

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

America’S Continued Fair Housing Crisis And The Ignored Solution: The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, Maysa Hassan Daoud

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Tyranny Plagued The French Revolution, Christy Leigh Salinari

Honors Theses

Liberty, equality, and fraternity were the three original pillars of the French Revolution at the start in 1789. The slogan became the rallying cry for the embittered French people in their initial pursuit for political and social transformation. The French Revolution is perhaps the most prominent contemporary illustration of a violent revolution which ultimately was successful, resulting in a model of democratic government. The French Revolution reached a decade in length wherein there were countless demonstrations, massacres, wars, civil unrest, and political enlightenment. The disorganized nature of the revolution cultivated a vast array of political beliefs, which ranged from radical …

Facial Recognition And Mass Media Use: Effects Of Technology On Perceptions Of Privacy, Muize Lemboye

Theses and Dissertations

Muize Oluwadamilare Lemboye FACIAL RECOGNITION AND MASS MEDIA USE: EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON PERCEPTIONS OF PRIVACY Artificial intelligence is used to explain how technologies perform human activities the way humans do them. Facial recognition is an aspect of Artificial intelligence that explains how technologies recognize and humans’ face to perform human activities. As facial recognition technologies (FRTs) have become increasingly popular components in today’s globalized society, this thesis aims to discover people’s perception on its effect on privacy. In-depth interviews were conducted among 15 students and staff of UA Little Rock School of Mass Communication to discover this perception. The …

Importing Prescription Drugs From Canada — Legal And Practical Problems With The Trump Administration's Proposal, Rachel E. Sachs, Nicholas Bagley

Articles

As Americans report ever-growing difficulty affording their prescription drugs, President Donald Trump has come under increasing pressure to act. To date, the Trump administration has attempted to advance a number of policy initiatives by means of executive action, but it has not yet adopted a program that would meaningfully assist patients. Most recently, the administration proposed a rule that, if finalized, would allow states to develop programs to import lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada, with the intent of reducing spending on drugs by U.S. patients and states and increasing access for patients.

Evaluating The Impact Of Gun Involved Violence Elimination (Give) Initiative Within The City Of Rochester, Michael Nicholas Surtel

Theses

Within the city of Rochester, gun violence has become something of a common occurrence within local neighborhoods and streets where violent crime continues to flourish. Between 2010 and 2018 the recorded number of shootings that have occurred in the city of Rochester were around 1,679, with around 200 being categorized as fatal shootings (https://data-rpdny.opendata.arcgis.com/). Many of the issues plaguing the Rochester Police Department in addressing the issue of gun violence are due to a misperceived idea of what causes gun violence in the first place and how to go about it without having to waste their resources on ineffective tactics. …

Symposium: Pandemics And The Constitution: Why The Special Needs Doctrine Is The Most Appropriate Fourth Amendment Theory For Justifying Police Stops To Enforce Covid-19 Stay-At-Home Orders, Henry F. Fradella

ConLawNOW

Despite the fact that the steps the federal and state governments take to curtail the spread of the viral infection are presumably taken in the best interest of public health, governmental actions and actors must comply with the U.S. Constitution even during a pandemic. Some public health measures, such as stay-at-home orders, restrict the exercise of personal freedoms ranging from the rights to travel and freely associate to the ability to gather in places of worship for religious services. This Essay explores several completing doctrines that might justify the authority of law enforcement to stop people who are out of …

The Self Drive Act: An Opportunity To Re- Legislate A Minimum Cybersecurity Federal Framework For Autonomous Vehicles, Green, Alexandra

Santa Clara Law Review

THE SELF DRIVE ACT: AN OPPORTUNITY TO RE- LEGISLATE A MINIMUM CYBERSECURITY FEDERAL FRAMEWORK FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

The Utilization And Effectiveness Of The Hesi E (Square) Exit Exam As A Graduation Requirement Toward Increasing Nclex-Rn® Pass Rates In Baccalaureate Nursing Programs, Debra Henline Sullivan

Dissertations

The purpose of the study was threefold. The first purpose compared the NCLEX-RN® first-time pass rates of BSN students in nursing programs that use the HESI E2 exit exam with other computerized exit exams, and those using no exit exam. NCLEX-RN® first-time pass rates for students taking HESI E2 did not show a statistically significant increase compared to students that took no exit exam. A second purpose, compared NCLEX-RN® first-time pass rates of BSN students in nursing programs utilizing the E2 that require a minimum benchmark score as a graduation requirement with those BSN students that use HESI E2 but …

Link-Family Safety Mobile Application Design, Yingxin Xie

Theses

The safety and health of children are essential issues not only for households but also for society. Missing Child is a severe strike to a family. It causes severe trauma memory and affects family members both psychologically and physically. Incidents like this also spread a feeling of fear among the local community. Many efforts have been made to help with this problem, such as the Amber Alert system, the location-tracking functions in the operating system in smartphones. There are also many safety apps in the app stores trying to prevent this kind of incident. However, there are still things that …

Keep Kids Out Of Prison: Community-Based Alternatives For Nonviolent Juvenile Offenders, Anessa L. Pennington

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Abstract

While juvenile crime has dropped over the past 20 years, tens of thousands of juvenile offenders are still incarcerated around the country, many of whom are nonviolent offenders. Researchers have found that detention centers, sometimes indistinguishable from adult prisons, do little to reduce recidivism and rehabilitate the offender. Rather, detention brings about more adverse effects than it does benefits. If incarceration isn’t working, how are the United States and other countries to deal with and deter juvenile crime? Community-based programs are a promising alternative to incarceration; instead of jumpsuits and cramped cells, community-based programs rely on community resources and …

Digital Court Records Access: Social Justice And Judicial Balancing, Peter J. Guffin

Maine Law Review

With its transition from paper to electronic records, the state court system in Maine is entering new, uncharted territory. In drafting rules regarding public access to electronic court records, a critical issue facing the court system is how to go about balancing the privacy interests of the individual and the state’s interest in providing transparency about the court’s operations. Both interests are important in our democracy, and it is critical that we take measures to preserve both. The purpose of writing this essay is to show that Judge Coffin’s judicial philosophy and rights-sensitive balancing process, although the product of a …

International Law, George A. Mocsary, Michael P. O'Shea, Nicholas James Johnson, E. Gregory Wallace

Faculty Book Chapters

pThis online chapter covers internationallaw principles and documents involving selfdefense and firearms control International law traditionally dealt with relations between nations but has expanded to cover interactions between states and individuals brbrppPart A covers the leading international legal conventions on the right of selfdefense or gun control the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the UN Programme of Action against the illicit trade in small arms the Firearms Protocol and International Tracing Instrument the Arms Trade Treaty and the UN's International Standards on Arms Control ISACS Part A also covers the work of various UN bodies such as the Human Rights …

Firearms Policy And Status, George A. Mocsary, Nicholas James Johnson, E. Gregory Wallace, David B. Kopel

Faculty Book Chapters

Firearms policy debates involve the special concerns of diverse groups in American society This Chapter examines disparate views about the costs and benefits of firearms in the context of race gender sexual orientation age disability marijuana use military service and Indian tribes brbrPrevious chapters have primarily focused on judicial decisions and legislative and historical material The content here is different For the first five groups in the above list their views are presented through amicus briefs most of them procon briefs from Heller Pedagogically the briefs are the opportunity to study how policy advocates serve as genuine ÔÇ£friends of the …

Tools And Methods For Distributed Spatial Control Of Swarms Via Multiplex Information Networks, Tansel Yucelen, Dzung Minh Duc Tran

USF Patents

A method and system for distributed spatial control of a formation of vehicles includes receiving at a first formation vehicle via a peer-to-peer communication interface, direction of travel and formation density information that indicate a course of travel for the first vehicle while travelling as a member of the formation of vehicles. The peer-to-peer formation density information indicates a distance to maintain from other neighboring formation vehicles. A formation vehicle self-navigation command is generated for navigating the first vehicle when travelling in one dimensional, two dimensional, or three dimensional space as a member of the formation of vehicles. The self-navigation …

Tools And Methods For Distributed Spatial Control Of Swarms Via Multiplex Information Networks, Tansel Yucelen, Dzung Minh Duc Tran

USF Patents

A method and system for distributed spatial control of a formation of vehicles includes receiving at a first formation vehicle via a peer-to-peer communication interface, direction of travel and formation density information that indicate a course of travel for the first vehicle while travelling as a member of the formation of vehicles. The peer-to-peer formation density information indicates a distance to maintain from other neighboring formation vehicles. A formation vehicle self-navigation command is generated for navigating the first vehicle when travelling in one dimensional, two dimensional, or three dimensional space as a member of the formation of vehicles. The self-navigation …

Presidential Ideology And Immigrant Detention, Catherine Y. Kim, Amy Semet

Duke Law Journal

In our nation’s immigration system, a noncitizen charged with deportability may be detained pending the outcome of removal proceedings. These individuals are housed in remote facilities closely resembling prisons, with severe restrictions on access to counsel and contact with family members. Due to severe backlogs in the adjudication of removal proceedings, such detention may last months or even years.

Many of the noncitizens initially detained by enforcement officials have the opportunity to request a bond hearing before an administrative adjudicator called an immigration judge (“IJ”). Although these IJs preside over relatively formal, on-the-record hearings and are understood to exercise “independent …

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 12), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Can We Form A Cohesive Relationship Between The Police And Their Communities?, Mia Coomes

Writing Waves

No abstract provided.

Unfinished Business: How “Split Authority” Over U.S. Asylum Adjudications Highlights The Need To Relocate The Immigration Court System To The Department Of Homeland Security, Kirsten Bickelman

Legislation and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.