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A Case Study: The Role Of Compassionate Cities, Healthy Cities, And Un Sustainable Development Goals In City Leadership And Planning, Lisa A. Berkley

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This research is a case study examining the relevance of three holistic city frameworks—Compassionate Cities, Healthy Cities, and UN Sustainable Development Goals—to the intentional or tacit thinking of city leaders, community leaders, and activists of Marina, California. Beginning with a discussion of the origin and development of the three frameworks, the study occurred in three phases: Phase I involved interviewing the five elected leaders, city manager, community development leaders, and two planners; Phase II consisted of a survey of appointed city leaders and community organizers and activists; and Phase III was an analysis of relevant public discourse, drawing from local …

The Role Of Geospatial Information And Effective Partnerships In The Implementation Of The International Agenda For Sustainable Development, Etta Delores Jackson

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (2014), repeated the core promise in the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development, in which the General Assembly called for an approach guaranteeing meaningful participation of everyone in development and the fair distribution of the benefits of that development. To this end, partnerships are central and can lead to the dignity of the citizens involved as they participate in the development of their own communities. This dissertation research conducted in Manyatta A and B in the Port City of Kisumu, Kenya sought to do just that. The purpose of this study …

A Corpus Linguistic Approach To Discursive Representation Of Lgbt Identities In The Bangkok Post Newspaper, Duangkamon Chuaikun

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The present study examines how each group of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) is represented discursively in Bangkok Post, a major English-language newspaper in Thailand. The data comprise LGBT-related news articles from 2012 to 2019. Statistically significant collocates of each term were extracted via AntConc and Sketch Engine and were then categorized according to their semantic relations as observed from their concordance lines. Findings from the Bangkok Post corpus show that the key terms share common semantic preference patterns that point to the discourse about LGBT political movement. However, the terms; GAY and TRANSGENDER are also associated with “crime”, …

A Presumption In Favor Of Openness: Unsealing Adoption Records, Emily Ingall

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that the current system of sealed adoption records in the United States, which prioritizes confidentiality over adoptees' rights, is outdated and harmful. It advocates for a presumption of openness, asserting that adoptees have a fundamental right to access their birth records, which is essential for their identity, medical needs, and psychological well-being. The analysis calls for legal reforms that balance the privacy rights of birth parents with the rights of adoptees to their personal information, proposing a model that includes contact preference registries and access to non-identifying information.

Annotated Legal Bibliography

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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

All Student Theses and Dissertations

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 …

Simulating Gender: Student Learning In Clinical Nursing Simulations, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor: The Court’S Premier Defender Of The Fourth Amendment, David L. Hudson Jr.

Law Faculty Scholarship

This essay posits that Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the Supreme Court’s chief defender of the Fourth Amendment and the cherished values it protects. She has consistently defended Fourth Amendment freedoms—in majority, concurring, and especially in dissenting opinions. Part I recounts a few of her majority opinions in Fourth Amendment cases. Part II examines her concurring opinion in United States v. Jones. Part III examines several of her dissenting opinions in Fourth Amendment cases. A review of these opinions demonstrates what should be clear to any observer of the Supreme Court: Justice Sotomayor consistently defends Fourth Amendment principles and values.

Fixed Stars: Famous First Amendment Phrases And Their Indelible Impact, David L. Hudson Jr., Jacob David Glenn

Law Faculty Scholarship

Some passages in First Amendment law have taken on a life and legend of their own, entering our cultural lexicon for their particular power, precision or passion. Some phrases are just so beautifully written that they cannot escape notice. Others aptly capture the essence of a key concept in a memorable way. Still others seemingly have grown in importance simply by the frequency for which they are cited in later court decisions. This article analyzes ten phrases from U.S. Supreme Court First Amendment decisions that qualify as some of the most enduring passages in First Amendment jurisprudence.

Beyond Formal University Technology Transfer: Innovative Pathways For Knowledge Exchange, Jacob H. Rooksby

Law Faculty Publications

University technology transfer is often associated with formal transmission of science-based inventions, for instance through the licensing of patented technology to a firm. Formal conceptions of technology transfer limit our ability to understand fully how scientific knowledge evolves into industrial and social application. In this introductory article, we discuss how knowledge is shared and accessed across boundaries, and argue for a broader conceptualization including the transfer, translation, and transformation of knowledge. This view underlies a necessary conceptual shift from formal technology transfer to a more encompassing conception of pathways for knowledge exchange. We discuss promising avenues for extending research on …

Popular Constitutional Argument, Thomas G. Donnelly

Law Faculty Publications

Critics have long attacked popular constitutionalists for offering few clues about how their theory might work in practice—especially inside the courts. These critics are right. Popular constitutionalism—as a matter of both theory and practice—remains a work in progress. In this Article, I take up the challenge of developing an account of (what I call) popular constitutional argument. Briefly stated, popular constitutional argument is a form of argument that draws on the American people’s considered judgments as a source of constitutional authority—akin to traditional sources like text, history, structure, and doctrine. Turning to constitutional theory, I situate popular constitutional argument within …

The Politics Of Annexation: Oligarchic Power In A Southern City, John V. Moeser, Rutledge M. Dennis

The Politics of Annexation

This Open Access Edition of The Politics of Annexation presents a newly formatted version of the original 1982 edition. The text itself has been edited only for non-substantive style changes and corrections. The Preface, the new Introduction (“Fifty Years Later”), and the index were prepared especially for this edition. The original edition was published by Schenkman Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is available online through the UR Scholarship Repository at https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/307/

The Politics of Annexation examines the process of American cities using annexation of suburban areas as a tool to increase their tax base and generate new revenue. The authors …

Catalog 2020-2021, University Of North Florida

UNF Course Catalogs

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The Economic Efficiency Case Against Business Tax Privacy, Daniel Schaffa

Law Faculty Publications

By statute, business tax returns are not publicly available. But with public access, investors would acquire useful information that would help them make better investing decisions; business tax compliance and planning would become more uniform, preventing tax-savvy firms from gaining an advantage over other relatively more productive firms; and businesses could learn from one another, which would spare firms the cost of redundantly developing the same tax strategies. In the long run, these efficiency gains could result in lower prices, higher wages, more innovation, more leisure, and better investment returns. In the debate over business tax privacy, these sorts of …

Filling The Federal District Court Vacancies, Carl Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

"President Donald Trump’s major success has been confirming judges for the thirteen federal appellate courts. The President shattered records by appointing a dozen circuit jurists in his administration’s first year, eighteen judges over the course of 2018, and twenty additional judges throughout his third year. Indeed, by June 2019, the appeals courts experienced four vacancies in 179 judgeships and today, only one position remains empty. This achievement is critical, as these tribunals are the courts of last resort for nearly every appeal, and appellate court opinions articulate greater policy than district court rulings and cover multiple states.

However, that accomplishment …

With Gratitute From Our Daughters: Reflecting On Justice Ginsburg And United States V. Virginia, Meredith Johnson Harbach

Law Faculty Publications

“What enabled me to take part in the effort to free our daughters and sons to achieve whatever their talents equipped them to accomplish, with no artificial barriers blocking their way?”

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg

On September 18, 2020, we mourned the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom many considered not just a cultural icon, but a national treasure. Among many other things, Justice Ginsburg became a later-in-life feminist “rock star,” celebrated for her rousing and impassioned dissents, her fearless defense of equality and autonomy rights, her championing of civil rights, and her persistent determination in the face of injustice. …

Development Of Cellulose As Substrates For Adsorbents And Sensors, Jadetapong Klahan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis deals with two parts of development of novel sensors based on cellulose substrate platform. The first part is the development of fluorescence sensors and adsorbents for metal ions using bacterial cellulose as the platform. The second part is the development of colorimetric sensors for smartphone detection of oil marker using filter paper as the platform. In the first part, bacterial cellulose (BC) has several advantageous properties over plant cellulose such as high purity, high surface area, high porosity, and high water-holding capacity due to its three-dimensional network of nanofibrils structure, that make BC appealing for applications related to …

Inhibitory Activity Of Metabolites From Mangosteen Roots Garcinia Mangostana L. On Hepatocellular Carcinoma And Colon Cancer Cell Growth, Kedkran Koopklang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Liver cancer is one of the most common deadliest diseases both worldwide and in Thailand. Because of its rich and dual blood supply, malignant tumors in the liver could grow proliferative and rapidly spread to another organ. This process was called Metastasis, the major cause of human death. Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.) generally known as a queen of fruits, has been widely studied in medicinal applications for many decades, due to plenty of bioactive metabolites such as xanthones as a major component. Nonetheless, reports about bioactivities of minor components were barely known. In this study, metabolites isolated from mangosteen roots …

Greybody Factors For Perfect Fluid Black Hole, Kunlapat Sansuk

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The Einstein equation is a field equation which describes gravity in terms of the curvature of spacetime. It states how matter curves spacetime. The solutions of the Einstein field equation are the metrics of spacetime from which the curvature of spacetime can be found. The field equations are non-linear, which are complicated to solve. Therefore, some assumptions are needed to reduce the complexity of the Einstein equation. One of these assumptions is a perfect fluid sphere. Perfect fluid sphere satisfies the following: no viscosity, no heat conduction, and isotropy. Perfect fluid black holes are black hole solutions of the Einstein …

Pyrrolidinyl Peptide Nucleic Acid Probe Capable Of Crosslinking With Dna, Penthip Muangkaew

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

DNA interstrand cross-linking (ICL) is a phenomenon in which two strands of the DNA (most often as part of the same DNA duplex) bind together via a covalent bond. This process prevents the DNA strand dissociation, which is essential for its biological functions, and thus is extremely damaging to cells. To overcome the problem of non-specificity associated with general DNA cross-linking agents, a cross-linkable probe in which the reactive group is placed on the probe that can specifically recognize part of the DNA target. The strong binding affinity and biological stability of the pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid (acpcPNA) inspired us …

Geology And Petrochemistry Of Volcanic Rocks In The Lam Sonthi Area, Lop Buri Province, Saowaphap Uthairat

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Lam Sonthi area is in Lop Buri province, central Thailand. Stratigraphically, the geology of the area consists of five rocks units; Unit I: Khao Ruak siltstone which is correlated to Khao Luak Formation (Early Permian), Unit II: Khao Phaeng Ma conglomerate, Unit III: Khao Ruak volcanics, Unit IV: Lam Sonthi polymictic conglomerate, and Unit V: Kuttaphet sandstone which is correlated to Phu Kradung Formation (Early Jurassic). In addition, the volcanic rocks, which are named as Kuttaphet volcanics and Khok Khli volcanics, could be found in the top of Unit IV as the polymictic intermediate breccia. Petrographic classification identifies the volcanic …

The Wormholes In The Modification Of General Relativity Theory, Takol Tangphati

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

A traversable wormhole, which is a class of wormholes in general relativity (GR), was proposed by Morris and Thorne in 1988. However, its existence requires the exotic matter violating the energy conditions. This thesis examines the wormhole solutions in the theory of massive gravity, focusing only on the de Rham, Gabadadze and Tolley (dRGT) theory of massive gravity which is the nonlinear massive gravity without ghost and quantify the wormhole solutions. We construct the wormhole solutions in context of the modified GR, investigate their stability, and examine the conditions of the exotic matter. Two methods for wormhole constructions are applied …

Effect Of Protein And Calcium Chloride Concentration, Ph, And Temperature On Almond Protein Gelation, Thiri Hlaing

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Almond (Prunus dulcis) seeds are good sources of protein that contain healthy fatty acids and dietary fiber. Protein gelation has been traditionally achieved by heating, but other factors can be affected in different gel structures in protein gelation. However, most studies were focused on the heat-induced gel formation of soymilk proteins, there was limited research on the gelling property of almond milk proteins. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of protein, and calcium chloride concentration, pH, and temperature on almond protein gel-forming and to analyze the physicochemical properties of the almond protein gel. Heat-induced gel formation of almond …

Sustainability Assessment Of Power Production By Chemical Looping Combustion, Watchara Uraisakul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study investigated the chemical looping combustion (CLC) process improvement for power production from energy management, system hydrodynamics, and sustainability perspectives. In the first part, the 3k factorial design was used for systematically investigating the operating variables that affect the thermal efficiency of the CLC combined with the humid air gas turbine (HAT) cycle. A set of operating variables, A) pressure of the air reactor, B) air compressor stages number, C) air compression methods, and D) air flow rate, were explored. The result showed that the highest thermal efficiency was at 55.87 % when operated at (A) 15 atm, (B) …

Recovery Of Isolated Pancreatic Isletsderived From Gut Leak-Induced Diabetes Type Ii Mouse Model, Adretta Soedarmanto

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Gut leak in the obese patient was known to be one of the predisposing factors causing diabetes type II. Indeed, the interleukin-10 (IL-10) plays a key role in gut mucosa homeostasis preventing the gut leak. Nevertheless, the linkage of diabetes type 2 caused by gut leak with IL-10 deficiency in the non-diabetes patient has not been investigated yet. Islets transplantation is known as the best alternative treatment for diabetes. The culture of isolated islets is still facing difficulties to preserve the morphology, viability, and functionality. Therefore, the present study was aiming to prove the concept of gut-leak on IL-10 deficient …

Targeted Surveillance Of Potential Zoonotic Respiratory And Enteric Viruses In Dogs In Bangkok, Thailand, Kamonpan Charoenkul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Human-dog interface poses a risk of transmission and spread of zoonotic viruses. The objective of the thesis entitled is to survey and genetic characterize zoonotic viruses in dogs and humans who have high-risk occupations and in close contact with dogs. This thesis contains 8 topics. The results of the first to third topics were the surveillance of respiratory viruses in dogs including Canine Parainfluenza type 5 (CPIV-5), Canine influenza virus (CIV) and Coronavirus (CoV). The nasal swab samples were collected from dogs with respiratory signs during 2015-2018. The results showed that the occurrence of CPIV-5, CIV and CoV were 5.6% …

Genetic Characteristics Of Antimicrobial Resistance Of Salmonella Enterica And Escherichia Coli Isolated From Broilers, Pigs And Their Meat Products In Sa Kaeo, Banteay Meanchey And Siem Reap Provinces, Suthathip Trongjit

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research study aimed to investigate the incidence and characterize antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli isolated from broilers, pigs and their meat products in Thailand–Cambodia border provinces. Resistance to clinically importance antimicrobials was additionally examined in the E. coli isolates from other provinces with high pig production in Thailand. A total of 941 samples were collected from broilers and pigs at slaughterhouses and their carcasses at local fresh markets in Sa Kaeo, Thailand (n=554) and Banteay Meanchey and Siem Reap, Cambodia (n=387) during 2014-2015. Three hundred forty-five Salmonella isolates were collected from Thailand (n = 145; …

The Effects Of Project-Based Writing Instruction On Writing Ability And Critical Thinking Skills Of Thai Efl Undergraduate Students, Apapan Ruengkul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This present study aimed to (1) investigate the effects of project-based writing instruction on writing ability of Thai EFL undergraduate students, (2) examine the effects of project-based writing instruction on critical thinking skills of Thai EFL undergraduate students, and (3) explore the attitudes of Thai EFL undergraduate students towards project-based writing instruction. This study employed a mixed-method research design with a one-group, pre-test-post-test design to collect both quantitative data and qualitative data. The study participants were 24 first-year undergraduate students at Srinakharinwirot University. Five research instruments were created to elicit data including the pre-test and post-test of writing ability and …

English Language Assessment Policy And Agency Of English Teachers In Thailand, Benjamas Dhammarungruang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The concept of human agency has received increasing attention in the field of education in the past decade. Education researchers, those in the area of English language education included, have much to grapple with in exploring and conceptualizing agency of teachers—or teacher agency. This is because teacher agency has been emphasized in education policy, stressing the importance of teachers acting as "agents of change." Yet, ironically, education policy both enables and constrains teacher agency due to the conflicts between the rhetoric of policy text and the reality of teaching context faced by the teachers. This paradoxical situation, coupled with the …

Stress Patterns And Metalinguistic Knowledge Before And After Praxis Intervention On The Pronunciation Of English Derivational Suffixed Words By Thai Learners, Chedtinee Piyapattaranop

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research study investigated the stress patterns and metalinguistic knowledge of Thai learners on the pronunciation of English derivational suffixed words. The study compared how the learners performed before and after the praxis intervention, where the stress placement rules of English suffixed words were explicitly taught and trained. Thirty first-year university students were selected by stratified random sampling based on their proficiency levels and were grouped into the high and low proficiency groups. They took the pre-test which was the read aloud task of the base and the suffixed words. Their performance was recorded, and the stress patterns were analysed. …