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Better Reviews, Mauro Patino

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Online Career Center, Amer Rayyan Mohammed

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Online Career Center is a website for finding jobs and assisting companies to recruit skilled candidates. By using this website job seekers can search jobs according to their requirements and companies also can find talent at the same time. Through this website job seekers can search and apply to a company for a job and can also select location and learn about the job and company’s profile in detail.

Online Career Center has a feature to give the job alerts and notifications to the job seekers which they saved earlier in their profile. Job seekers can explore jobs and salary …

The Effectiveness Of Mentoring Adolescent Girls: Targeting Underserved Communities In Chicago's South Suburbs, Robin L. Miles

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The objective of this research was to identify the most effective mentoring strategies to combat social issues that adolescent females are faced with; and to explore the implementation of female-only mentoring programs in Chicago's southland communities. The current study used an exploratory, qualitative phenomenological approach and content analysis to analyze the data. Purposive sampling was used to obtain participants for this study. All participants were at least 18 years old. All participants were actively engaged in their girl mentoring program at the time of study. The researching conducted semi-structured interviews using open-end questions. To ensure validity and reliability of the …

Better Reviews, Reema Shavani Tummalapalli

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This is a documentary paper on the "Better Review" PHP project. This project contains a local directory guide for the general users who can get registered to the website and write or check reviews and ratings for any particular business, shop, dine, and professionals. The admin can control the whole process to provide authenticity and reliance.

The business owners can also promote their business through this website and get public search as public get to know about new business in the featured service option on the website. Business users can send promotional offers to the users that posted their reviews …

A Financial Analysis Of Alternative Levels Of Facility Investment Associated With Installing An Automatic Milking System, Dillon M. Feuz, Ryan Feuz, Allen Young

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This fact sheet models some of the key variables impacting profitability of AMS and explicitly considers three different levels of capital investment in facilities in addition to the capital cost of the AMS. The specific objective is to determine how the level of capital investment in additional facilities impacts the profitability of an AMS.

Computer Science For Equity: Teacher Education, Agency, And Statewide Reform, Joanna Goode, Max Skorodinsky, Jill Hubbard, James Hook

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper reports on a statewide “Computer Science for All” initiative in Oregon that aims to democratize high school computer science and broaden participation in an academic subject that is one of the most segregated disciplines nationwide, in terms of both race and gender. With no statewide policies to support computing instruction, Oregon's legacy of computer science education has been marked by both low participation and by rates of underrepresented students falling well-below the already dismal national rates. The study outlined in this paper focuses on how teacher education can support educators in developing knowledge and agency, and impacting policies …

Utilizing Relational Dialectics Theory To Identify Dominant And Marginalized Discourses In Women's Miscarriage Podcast Stories, Cherinicole Lardino

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This study examined the discourses of miscarriages from the podcast narratives of women who have experienced miscarriage by utilizing Relational Dialectic Theory (RDT). The process of contrapuntal analysis identified the discourse of silence as the dominant miscarriage discourse in which the marginalized miscarriage discourse of silence as the dominant miscarriage discourse in which the marginalized miscarriage discourses of open and honest and fear and anxiety were counterpoint to. There were four interrelated themes of shame, lack of supportive and encouraging messages, lack of readily available information, and a communicated feeling that their circumstances could be worse that revealed the silence …

Effects Of Urbanization On The Avian Community Of Oak Woodlands, Axel Rutter

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Continued human population growth leads to further expansion of high-density population centers and agricultural land necessary to sustain them. With this urban expansion comes a myriad of effects on both native habitat and wildlife. In birds, these effects can have a variety of negative impacts on behavior and physical health. Habitat degradation, largely through various forms of pollution, leads to impaired immune responses, increased stress levels, altered behavior, and much more. The wide range of effects impacting wild birds and their habitat can also alter the structure of local communities. Only species that can survive on or adapt to the …

Emmett Scott High School Collection - Accession 1729, Emmett Scott High School

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of memorabilia, artifacts, and other material related to Emmett Scott High School that was collected by Dr. Sylvia Berry who worked for the Rock Hill School District. Emmett Scott opened in 1920 as the first public school for blacks in Rock Hill, SC. The school operated as a segregated educational institution from 1920 until Rock Hill Schools were fully desegregated in 1970. The material in this collections consists of yearbooks, photographs, commencement invitations and programs, graduation tassels, student handbook, football program, concert tickets, a class ring and a student pin, a program from the 50^th anniversary …

Rock Hill Printing And Finishing Company Records - Accession 368, Rock Hill Printing And Finishing Company, Bleachery

Manuscript Collection

This collection is a valuable source on the history of the textile industry in Rock Hill and particular the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company’s role in its development. Of particular interest is a scrapbook containing nearly a 100 photographs of the construction of the plant including aerial views. The scrapbook also contains many newspaper clippings from the period 1928-1935 that details the construction of the plant and its early operation. Also included in the collection are copies of the newsletters, Newsy Notes and Reporter, a 1943 publication picturing employees serving in the armed forces, and sixteen photographs taken …

Catawba Indian Land Claim Dispute Records - Accession 841, Catawba Indian Land Claim

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of the records used by the defense attorney in the Catawba Indian land claim trial. Included in the collection are correspondence, memoranda, appendices, reports, financial references, legal brief, newspaper clippings, and other records concerning the land dispute. South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, Inc., 476 U.S. 498 1986 was an important case regarding aboriginal title in the United States. A settlement was eventually reached where the Catawba Indian Nation’s aboriginal title was revoked in exchange for $50,000,000 in 1993. This collection would prove invaluable to anyone researching the Catawba Indian Nation, its history, and relation …

Bromocriptine Improves Glucose Tolerance Independent Of Circadian Timing, Prolactin, Or The Melanocortin-4 Receptor, Sarah N. Framnes-Deboer, Ellen Bakke, Suma Yalamanchili, Hannah Peterson, Darleen A. Sandoval, Randy J. Seeley, Deanna M. Arble

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Bromocriptine, a dopamine D2 receptor agonist originally used for the treatment of hyperprolactinemia, is largely successful in reducing hyperglycemia and improving glucose tolerance in type 2 diabetics. However, the mechanism behind bromocriptine’s effect on glucose intolerance is unclear. Here, we tested three hypotheses, that bromocriptine may exert its effects on glucose metabolism by 1) decreasing prolactin secretion, 2) indirectly increasing activity of key melanocortin receptors in the central nervous system, or 3) improving/restoring circadian rhythms. Using a diet-induced obese (DIO) mouse model, we established that a 2-wk treatment of bromocriptine is robustly effective at improving glucose tolerance. …

Distinct Patterns Of Pigment Development Underlie Convergent Hyperpigmentation Between Nocturnal And Diurnal Geckos (Squamata: Gekkota), Aaron H. Griffing, Tony Gamble, Aaron M. Bauer

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

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Evolutionary transitions in temporal niche necessitates specialized morphology, physiology, and behaviors. Diurnal, heliothermic squamates (lizards and snakes) that bask require protection from ultraviolet radiation (UV) that can damage internal organs such as the brain, viscera, and gonads. Many smaller squamates have accomplished this protection by hyperpigmentation of the peritoneum and subcutaneous dorsum. Typically, nocturnal species do not require these protections from ultraviolet light. However, some nocturnal species that exhibit extreme crypsis may be exposed to sunlight and UV and require some means of mediating that damage. One such species is Gekko (Ptychozoon) kuhli, a nocturnal, arboreal …

The New Restatement Of Children And The Law: Legal Childhood In The Twenty-First Century, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay is based on a previous article: Clare Huntington & Elizabeth Scott, Conceptualizing Legal Childhood in the Twenty-First Century, 118 Mich. L. Rev. 1371 (2020) (offering a comprehensive account of the Child Wellbeing framework).

Since the 1960s, the law regulating children has become increasingly complex and uncertain. The relatively simple framework established in the Progressive Era, in which parents had primary authority over children subject to a limited supervisory and protective role of the state, has broken down. Lawmakers have begun to grant children some adult rights and privileges, raising questions about their traditional status as vulnerable, dependent, …

Capitalizing On Healthy Lawyers: The Business Case For Law Firms To Promote And Prioritize Lawyer Well-Being, Jarrod F. Reich

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The Commonality Of Causation, Sergio J. Campos

Articles

This essay, a version of which was given as the inaugural Goldman Endowed Lecture at Ohio Northern University School ofLaw, discusses the treatment of causation in class actions, multidistrict litigation, and similar collective litigation. Causation is a ubiquitous element of civil claims, and typically it is treated as an individual element of a claim because it is dependent on the circumstances of each individual claimant. Even if the conduct at issue in litigation is "common, " or the same, for a group of claimants, whether that conduct caused harm to a specific claimant will depend on the unique circumstances of …

Trade's Security Exceptionalism, Kathleen Claussen

Articles

At the core of U.S. trade law is an under-studied structural dichotomy. On the one hand, well-established statutory authorities enable the President to eliminate trade barriers through negotiations with U.S. trading partners. On the other hand, different, lesser-known authorities allow the President to erect trade barriers on an exceptional basis where necessary for U.S. economic security. Rather than thinking of free trade as a source of or tool for economic security as political theorists long have, our law codifies these authorities as though they are in contrast to one another-allowing departures from the free trade norm when security so demands. …

The State Qui Tam To Enforce Employment Law, Andrew Elmore

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The Supreme Court's Facilitation Of White Christian Nationalism, Caroline Mala Corbin

Articles

Doug Jager, a band student of Native-American ancestry, complained about the Christian prayers at his Georgia public school’s football games. Rather than address his concerns, the school lectured him on Christianity and proposed an alternative that appeared neutral yet would result in the continuation of the Christian prayers. In striking down the school’s proposal, Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. understood some of the ramifications of state-sponsored Christianity.

Despite Supreme Court rulings limiting Christian invocations at public-school events, government-sponsored Christian prayers and Christian symbols remain plentiful in the United States. This proliferation of government-sponsored Christianity around the country both reflects and …

Networks Of Empathy, Thomas E. Kadri

Articles

Digital abuse is on the rise. People increasingly use technology to perpetrate and exacerbate abusive conduct like stalking and harassment, manipulating digital tools to control and harm their victims. By some accounts, 95% of domestic-abuse cases involve technology, while a sizeable chunk of the U.S. population now admits to having suffered or perpetrated serious abuse online. To make matters worse, people often trivialize digital abuse or underestimate its prevalence. Even among those who do appreciate its severity, there remains ample disagreement about how to address it.

Although law can be a powerful tool to regulate digital abuse, legal responses are …

Payday, Yonathan A. Arbel

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Legislation lags behind technology all too often. While trillions of dollars are exchanged in online transactions-safely, cheaply, and instantaneously-workers still must wait two weeks to a month to receive payments from their employers. In the modern economy, workers are effectively lending money to their employers, as they wait for earned wages to be paid.

The same worker who taps a credit card to pay for groceries in semiautomated checkout lines depends on dated payroll systems that only transfer payments on a "payday." Workers, especially those living paycheck-to-paycheck, are hard-pressed to meet their daily needs and turn to expensive, short-term credit …

Religious Liberty In A Pandemic, Caroline Mala Corbin

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The coronavirus pandemic caused an unprecedented shutdown of the United States. The stay-at-home orders issued by most states typically banned large gatherings of any kind, including religious services. Churches sued, arguing that these bans violated their religious liberty rights by treating worship services more strictly than analogous activities that were not banned, such as shopping at a liquor store or superstore. This Essay examines these claims, concluding that the constitutionality of the bans turns on the science of how the pathogen spreads, and that the best available scientific evidence supports the mass gathering bans.

The Unconstitutionality Of Government Propaganda, Caroline Mala Corbin

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Government propaganda-the government's deliberate dissemination of false claims on matters of public interest-has increasingly become a source of concern in the United States. Not only does the current presidential administration disseminate propaganda at a rate unprecedented in the modern era, so that Americans now live in an age of government-created "alternative facts," but the internet and social media have made it possible to find receptive audiences with alarming speed and accuracy. This surge of government propaganda poses troubling questions for the health of our democracy, which requires political accountability and the valid consent of the governed to thrive.

Although the …

Challenging Racial Injustice In The Criminalization Of Homelessness In The United States: A Human Rights Approach, David Berris, Joseph Candelaria, Tamar Ezer, Lily Frances Fontenot

Articles

The criminalization of homelessness in the United States perpetuates a cycle of racial injustice and violates fundamental human rights. Longstanding discrimination in housing and law enforcement have resulted in disproportionate homelessness among Black Americans. Thus, laws and policies that criminalize life-sustaining behaviors, such as sleeping, in public further exacerbate racial disparities, punishing people for homelessness rather than addressing root causes. Criminalization results in fines that people cannot pay and criminal records, driving employment and housing out of reach and circulating individuals from the street to the criminal justice system and back. The criminalization of homelessness also directly violates international human …

The Internet As A Speech Machine And Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform, Mary Anne Franks, Danielle Citron

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How The Internet Unmakes Law, Mary Anne Franks

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The Second Amendment's Safe Space, Or The Constitutionlization Of Fragility, Mary Anne Franks

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Failure To Capture: Why Business Does Not Control The Rulemaking Process, Gabriel Scheffler

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Leading figures on both the political right and the political left have concluded that the agency rulemaking process is captured: that it serves to benefit businesses, at the expense of the general public. This perception appears to be supported by recent theoretical and empirical scholarship and has prompted lawmakers to introduce various proposals to reform the federal rulemaking process.

Yet as I will demonstrate in this Article, the view of the rulemaking process as captured is unwarranted. I will show that the academic literature actually provides little guidance as to the magnitude of business influence that is, the extent to …

Conduct Yourself Accordingly: Amending Bar Character & Fitness Questions To Promote Lawyer Well-Being, Janet Stearns, David Jaffe

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Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation And Entrepreneurial Preferences, Elizabeth Hoffman, David L. Schwartz, Matthew L. Spitzer, Eric L. Talley

Faculty Scholarship

An emerging common wisdom holds that courts have made it “too hard” to obtain patent protection in critical industries. The origin of this criticism dates back at least as far as the United States Supreme Court’s 2012 landmark opinion in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. which (the argument goes) triggered a chain reaction of judicial opinions rendering patent rights progressively more difficult to secure. Two years later, the Supreme Court decided Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, another opinion widely viewed as restricting patent rights. And, barely three years after Mayo, the Federal Circuit cited it in …