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Estimating The Need For Additional Bankruptcy Judges In Light Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Benjamin Iverson, Jared A. Ellias, Mark Roe

Faculty Publications

In this Article, we present the first effort to use an empirical approach to bolster the capacity of the bankruptcy system during a national crisis—here, the COVID-19 crisis. We provide two analyses, one using data from May 2020, very early on in the crisis, and another using data from September 2020, closer to the publication of this Article. Our analysis is based on an empirical observation: Historically, an increase in the unemployment rate has been a leading indicator of a rise in bankruptcy filings. If this historical trend continues to hold, the May 2020 unemployment rate of 13.3% would have …

Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring In The Covid Crisis, Robin Greenwood, Benjamin Iverson, David Thesmar

Faculty Publications

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. Some firms will be able to survive, while others will face bankruptcy and thus need to be liquidated or reorganized. Many surviving firms will need to be downsized or acquired. In normal times, this triage is supported by the court system, banks, and financial markets. The goal of this paper is to size up the coming surge of financial distress, list the challenges it presents in the current environment, and analyze potential policy solutions. …

New And Everlasting: The Relationship Between Gospel Covenants In History, Kerry Muhlestein, Joshua M. Sears, Avram R. Shannon

Faculty Publications

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints speak of covenants in general, baptismal covenants, temple covenants, the new and everlasting covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, and the Mosaic or Sinai covenant. But what are these covenants, and how are they related to each other? Students in many settings experience confusion about these questions. Each book of scripture shares aspects of covenants that students may not understand as well as they could. Greater clarity will allow them to draw more power from scriptural and current prophetic teachings about the centrality of the covenant in every dispensation.

Religion As A Source Of Tolerance And Intolerance: Exploring The Dichotomy, Quinn Galbraith, Alexandra Carlisle, Ben White

Faculty Publications

Previous research on tolerance and intolerance in religion has focused on individuals’ internal religious commitment and their relationship within religious groups. In exploring religion’s ability to generate both tolerance and intolerance, this qualitative study draws on data from interviews with 220 highly religious individuals living in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2016 in order to suggest how religious individuals see themselves interacting with tolerance and intolerance in their daily lives. Many of our subjects identified themselves as tolerant people while viewing others as intolerant of their religious beliefs. An analysis of our findings and prior research suggests that religious …

Words Matter: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Msba / Masa Model School Discipline Policy, Tamara Uselman

Education

This dissertation in practice was a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Model School Policy 506, Student Discipline (MSBA, 2019), as it relates to the school-to-prison pipeline across the nation as well as in Minnesota. Model Policy 506, co-authored by the Minnesota School Board Association and the Minnesota Association of School Administrators, is offered to school districts that subscribe to MSBA’s policy services. The homogeneity in school discipline policy across Minnesota provided an opportunity for this study. The purpose of this CDA was two-fold: to assess the discourses instantiated in Model School Policy 506, and to determine, through the figured world …

Children, But Not Great Apes, Respect Ownership, Patricia Kanngiesser, Federico Rossano, Ramona Frickel, Anne Tomm, Michael Tomasello

School of Psychology

Access to and control of resources is a major source of costly conflicts. Animals, under some conditions, respect what others control and use (i.e. possession). Humans not only respect possession of resources, they also respect ownership. Ownership can be viewed as a cooperative arrangement, where individuals inhibit their tendency to take others’ property on the condition that those others will do the same. We investigated to what degree great apes follow this principle, as compared to human children. We conducted two experiments, in which dyads of individuals could access the same food resources. The main test of respect for ownership …

Plant Volatiles Induced By Herbivore Eggs Prime Defences And Mediate Shifts In The Reproductive Strategy Of Receiving Plants, Foteini G. Pashalidou, Lisa Eyman, James Sims, James Buckley, Nina E. Fatouros, Moraes Cm De, Mark C. Mescher

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Extraction Of Electromagnetic Properties Of Metamaterials With Branch Compensation From Phase Tracking, Jacob Christian Lewis

Electrical and Computer Engineering

In the field of electromagnetism, there are materials known as metamaterials which exhibit unique properties that can be exploited. Permittivity, defined as capacitance per meter, of a metamaterial can vary over frequency , time, or even be negative. This can be useful for tuning antennas, changing their operating frequency or direction of propagation, or even designing cloaking systems. However, the theory behind metamaterials needs to be studied further. One of the biggest issues to address is in determining the constitutive parameters of metamaterials which may be varying. Previous research has shown the issue of branches, or mathematical discontinuities, occurring in …

Examining The Relationship Between Elementary School Teachers' Multicultural Attitudes And Self-Efficacy For Teaching English Language Learners, Daisy Mae Figueroa

Education

An increase in English Language Learners (ELLs) in public schools across the nation is forcing stakeholders to reexamine how teachers are being prepared to effectively teach culturally and linguistically diverse students. It is unclear to what extent inservice teachers feel prepared to work with ELLs and what factors impact their feelings of preparedness. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between teachers’ self-efficacy for teaching ELLs, general teaching self-efficacy, and multicultural attitudes. The study also explored whether teachers’ self-efficacy for teaching ELLs could be explained by variables that include years of teaching experience, highest degree earned, perception …

Validating The Mindset Scale For Use With International Students Attending College In The United States, Steve Edward Winfrey

Education

Institutions of higher education continue to try and find new ways to help students persist in college (Kinzie & Kuh, 2017). One compelling tool to help students succeed comes from Dweck’s (1999) Mindset model. The model depicts intelligence as either fixed or growth; meaning intelligence can be viewed as unchangeable or malleable. Students with a growth mindset recover from failure quicker, overcome challenges faster, and see difficulty as a positive challenge instead of questioning their intelligence. With the many challenges domestic students face persisting in college, international students studying abroad face additional factors inhibiting their motivation and ability to succeed. …

Searching For Meaning In Sound: Learning And Interpreting Alarm Signals In Visual Environments., S Mcdougall, J Edworthy, D Sinimeri, J Goodliffe, D Bradley, J Foster

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Determination, Occurrence, And Treatment Of Saccharin In Water: A Review, Lina Pang, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Efthalia Chatzisymeon

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

What Approaches To Social Prescribing Work, For Whom, And In What Circumstances? A Realist Review, Kerryn Husk, Kelly Blockley, Rebecca Lovell, Alison Bethel, Iain Lang, Richard Byng, Ruth Garside

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

Applicability, Safety, And Biological Activity Of Regulatory T Cell Therapy In Liver Transplantation, A Sánchez‐Fueyo, Gavin Whitehouse, Nathali Grageda, Matthew E. Cramp, Tiong Y. Lim, Marco Romano, Sarah Thirkell, Katie Lowe, Laura Fry, Julie Heward, Alex Kerr, Jakia Ali, Chris Fisher, Gillian Lewis, Andrew Hope, Elisavet Kodela, Mike Lyne, Farzin Farzaneh, Shahram Kordasti, I Rebollo‐Mesa, Lozano J Jose, Niloufar Safinia, Nigel Heaton, Robert Lechler, M Martínez‐Llordella, Giovanna Lombardi

Peninsula Medical School

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are a lymphocyte subset with intrinsic immunosuppressive properties that can be expanded in large numbers ex vivo and have been shown to prevent allograft rejection and promote tolerance in animal models. To investigate the safety, applicability, and biological activity of autologous Treg adoptive transfer in humans, we conducted an open-label, dose-escalation, Phase I clinical trial in liver transplantation. Patients were enrolled while awaiting liver transplantation or 6-12 months posttransplant. Circulating Tregs were isolated from blood or leukapheresis, expanded under good manufacturing practices (GMP) conditions, and administered intravenously at either 0.5-1 million Tregs/kg or 3-4.5 million Tregs/kg. …

Nearshore Sediment Pathways And Potential Sediment Budgets In Embayed Settings Over A Multi-Annual Timescale, Nieves G. Valiente, Gerd Masselink, Robert Jak Mccarroll, Tim Scott, Daniel Conley, Erin King

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Quality Of Mitigation Plans In Large Jurisdictions In The Upper Midwest, Aastha Singh Bhandari

Emergency Management

This study sought to evaluate the plan quality of Hazard Mitigation plans of 30 larger jurisdictions counties in the upper Mid-West. Better plans serve as better guidance for communities to choose better actions and inflict fewer damages. The planning research literature was reviewed to identify important plan components and the plan characteristics that determined the plan quality. The fundamental evaluation characteristics were identified, and those, along with recommended components, were put into an evaluation form. This evaluation form was used to evaluate the county plans, and the findings of the evaluation were discussed. It was found that the quality of …

Social Dialect Features Of Military Speech: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Fargo Veterans, Anthony J. Albright

English

This mixed-methods study examines the potential existence of a military dialect separate from regional or social dialects experienced by civilians. In particular, how similar is the military-related storytelling lexicon of veterans in the Fargo-Moorhead area to the lexicon set forth in training bases and training manuals used by the U.S. military? The lexicon used by veterans in storytelling can sometimes seem opaque to an audience. It is typically dense with meaning borne by a few coded words. These words carry a contextual burden that can be better understood by an appeal to the dialect from which they were borne. In …

From Open Access To Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality To Open Scientific Communication, Christian Heise, Joshua M. Pearce

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communication, it can still be difficult to put open science into practice. How open and transparent can a scientific work be? This article investigates the potential to make all information and the whole work process of a qualification project such as a doctoral thesis comprehensively and freely accessible on the internet with an open free license both in the final form and completely traceable in development. The answer to the initial question, the self-experiment and the associated demand for openness, posed several challenges for a …

Where Is The Policy? A Bibliometric Analysis Of The State Of Policy Research On Medical Tourism., Altaf Virani, Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Background: It is imperative that researchers studying medical tourism connect their work with policy, so that its real-world challenges can be better understood, and more effectively addressed. This article gauges the scope and evolution of

Methods: A Boolean search of the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection was performed to identify policy-related publications on medical tourism. We analyzed the results using bibliometrics and a data visualization software called

Results: Our findings suggest that only a small proportion of medical tourism research explicitly addresses policy issues or applies policy paradigms in their study approach. Field-specialized journals serving practitioners publish less research …

Research In Defense Logistics: Where Are We And Where Are We Going?, George A. Zsidisin, Amanda Bresler, Benjamin T. Hazen, Keith F. Schneider, Taylor H. Wilkerson

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight on high-interest areas of research in defense-related logistics and supply chain management and opportunities for advancing theory and practice in this domain.

English Language Learner Teachers’ Perceptions Of Digital Games On Student Learning, Khalifa Alshaya

Theses and Dissertations

This body of work contains three articles that examine the intersectionality between English Language Learner (ELL) teachers and digital games. The purpose of the study is to qualitatively explore the perception of ELL teachers’ use of digital games as educational tools and whether they realize the potential to promote language learning for ELLs. This study aims to understand the lived experiences of ELL teachers to identify their viewpoint of language learning through gaming. The work focuses particularly on the teacher in an effort to contribute empirical work that supports the need for a more holistic approach to digital games in …

The Impact Of Cultural Values In Advertising On Saudi Consumers’ Loyalty, Abdullah Mohammed Bajaber

Theses and Dissertations

Advertising has been one of the most effective elements of marketing communication used to persuade audiences to behave in a certain way. Many studies have examined factors that affect ads positively. Increasing loyalty was classified as the primary goal of companies. Thus, advertisements were commonly used to achieve this goal. On the other hand, even though many studies discussed advertising elements that might generate negative impacts, the possible results of these ads were not sufficiently addressed. Through the theory of planned behavior, this study aimed to explore the role of the cultural value as an element impacting loyalty negatively by …

Simulation Of Notch Driven Hydraulic Fracture In Open Hole Completion, Nejma Djabelkhir

Theses and Dissertations

Hydrocarbon production from unconventional plays, including shale oil and gas, has begun in the USA since nearly two decades ago and experienced a rapid growth. Horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing (HF) are the prime technologies in development and stimulation of unconventional reservoirs. Open hole (OH) and cased hole (CH) are the primary completion methods used in unconventional reservoirs. OH compared to cased hole (CH) completion is more desired as it requires less operation cost and time while it results in more production due to larger area of wellbore exposure to the formation. However, OH completion is susceptible to near …

Sexism, Gender Identity, And Psychological Well-Being: Examining Women’S Reactions To A Social Identity Threat, Wendy Nicole Fisher

Theses and Dissertations

For women, sexism is an unavoidable experience and perceiving one’s self as a victim of sexism can have detrimental effects on psychological well-being. However, situational factors, such as level of sexism, and individual differences in gender-related beliefs can influence whether women attribute negative experiences and outcomes to sexism and the degree to which they are impacted by sexism. The current two-part study examined how women responded to sexist feedback depending on the level and target of sexism, as well as individual differences in gender identity and endorsement of sexism. The impact of sexist feedback on women’s psychological well-being was also …

The Value Of Existential Worlds: Creation And Validation Of A Measure To Explore The Four Existential Worlds, Matthew Robert Rozzi

Theses and Dissertations

The field of counseling psychology is increasingly focused on understanding clients in holistic and non-pathologizing ways. Existential theory provides the four-worlds model for exploring human existence in line with this modern psychological zeitgeist. In this model, humans are understood to exist simultaneously in four “worlds” or “dimensions”: physical (umwelt), social (mitwelt), psychological (eigenwelt), and spiritual/philosophical (uberwelt). This measure construction project is the first known study to examine the personal importance (value) of existing in each world. The Value of Existential Worlds (VEW) was created and psychometrically examined. From the initial 63-items, a shorter (20-item) version was created which demonstrated a …

Faculty Perspectives: Understanding And Responding To Stress Management Needs In The Occupational Therapy Doctorate, Alyson Rae Wilhelmi Downs

Theses and Dissertations

Occupational therapy programs are currently pursuing the transition to an entry-level occupational therapy doctorate (OTD). Due to the novel change with this population, minimal research exists on how faculty are understanding and constructing a process to manage stress, promote wellbeing, and foster self-efficacy for themselves and the benefit of students during this time of transition. The concepts of habituation and social cognitive theory frame inquiry and understanding of the research problem for the development of a constructivist grounded theory study. A total of nine faculty and staff members at a Midwest OT program in the midst of programmatic change to …

Intermediate Accounting Ii, William Hahn

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Investigating The Impact Of Explanation On Repairing Trust In Ai Diagnostic Systems For Re-Diagnosis, Lamia Alam

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

AI systems are increasingly being fielded to support diagnoses and healthcare advice for patients. One promise of AI application is that they might serve as the first point of contact for patients, replacing routine tasks, and allowing health care professionals to focus on more challenging and critical aspects of healthcare. For AI systems to succeed, they must be designed based on a good understanding of how physicians explain diagnoses to patients, and how prospective patients understand and trust the systems providing the diagnosis, as well as the explanations they expect. In this thesis, I examine this problem across three studies. …

A Novel Pixel-Based Multiple-Point Geostatistical Simulation Method For Stochastic Modeling Of Earth Resources, Adel Asadi

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Uncertainty is an integral part of modeling Earth's resources and environmental processes. Geostatistical simulation technique is a well-established tool for uncertainty quantification of earth systems modeling. Multiple-point statistical (MPS) algorithms are specifically advantageous when dealing with the complexity and heterogeneity of geological data. MPS algorithms take advantage of using training images to mimic physical reality. This research presents a novel and efficient pixel-based multiple-point geostatistical simulation method for mineral resource modeling. Pixel-based simulation implies the sequential modeling of individual points on the simulation grid by borrowing spatial information from the training image and honoring conditioning data points. The developed method …

ภาพตัวแทนผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาที่ประกอบสร้างผ่านภาษาในวาทกรรมสื่อมวลชนและวาทกรรมสื่อภาครัฐ: การศึกษาแนววาทกรรมวิเคราะห์เชิงวิพากษ์, สิริภัทร เชื้อกุล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ประเด็นเรื่องผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาได้รับการกล่าวถึงในสังคมไทยมาเป็นเวลานาน เนื่องจากมีความสำคัญต่อการพัฒนาประเทศและตลาดแรงงานต้องการกำลังคนอาชีวศึกษาจำนวนมาก แต่คนในสังคมส่วนใหญ่มักมีอคติและมองผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาในลักษณะเหมารวมในด้านลบ งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาภาพตัวแทนผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาที่ประกอบสร้างผ่านภาษาในวาทกรรมสื่อมวลชนและวาทกรรมสื่อภาครัฐ ได้แก่ หนังสือพิมพ์รายวัน รายการโทรทัศน์ และข่าวประชาสัมพันธ์ทางเว็บไซต์ของหน่วยงานภาครัฐ เก็บข้อมูลระหว่างปี พ.ศ. 2555-2561 โดยศึกษาตามแนววาทกรรมวิเคราะห์เชิงวิพากษ์ ผลการวิเคราะห์ตัวบทพบว่า ภาพตัวแทนด้านลบที่ปรากฏในวาทกรรมทั้งสองกลุ่ม ได้แก่ ผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาเป็นบุคคลอันตรายที่มีพฤติกรรมเป็นนักเลงอันธพาล ผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาเป็นปัญหาสังคมที่ยากจะแก้ไข และผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาไม่เกรงกลัวกฎหมาย ภาพตัวแทนด้านบวก ได้แก่ ผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษามีทักษะฝีมือ ผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาสำคัญต่อการพัฒนาประเทศ ผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาได้รับการสนับสนุนจากภาครัฐและหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้อง ผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษามีน้ำใจ และผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษามีความมั่นคงก้าวหน้า ภาพตัวแทนทั้งหมดสื่อผ่านกลวิธีทางภาษา 8 กลวิธี ได้แก่ การเลือกใช้คำศัพท์ การใช้อุปลักษณ์ การใช้สหบท การใช้ทัศนภาวะ การใช้มูลบท การปฏิเสธมูลบท การเชื่อมโยงข้อความบอกความขัดแย้ง และการใช้คำถามเชิงวาทศิลป์ เมื่อพิจารณาเชิงปริมาณพบว่า ในวาทกรรมสื่อมวลชนเนื้อหาหน้าหนึ่งของหนังสือพิมพ์เน้นการนำเสนอภาพด้านลบมากกว่าด้านบวก ขณะที่เนื้อหาหน้าในเน้นการนำเสนอภาพด้านบวกมากกว่าด้านลบ ส่วนวาทกรรมสื่อภาครัฐทั้งรายการโทรทัศน์และข่าวประชาสัมพันธ์ทางเว็บไซต์เน้นการนำเสนอภาพด้านบวกมากกว่าด้านลบ เมื่อพิจารณาเชิงคุณภาพพบว่า ภาพตัวแทนด้านลบมักนำเสนอโดยใช้กลวิธีทางภาษาเพื่อเน้นย้ำแง่มุมด้านลบให้โดดเด่น และบางครั้งมีการนำเสนอในลักษณะ “เหมารวม” ส่วนการนำเสนอภาพตัวแทนด้านบวกบางส่วนกลับมีการสะท้อนมุมมองด้านลบต่อผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษา ผลการวิเคราะห์วิถีปฏิบัติทางวาทกรรมพบว่า วัตถุประสงค์ของผู้ผลิตตัวบท พื้นที่หรือช่องทางการนำเสนอ ตลอดจนกลุ่มผู้รับสาร ในวาทกรรมสื่อมวลชนและวาทกรรมสื่อภาครัฐ มีส่วนสำคัญต่อการประกอบสร้างและนำเสนอภาพตัวแทนผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษา ตลอดจนส่งผลต่อการรับรู้ภาพตัวแทนผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาของคนในสังคม ที่สำคัญคือภาพตัวแทนด้านลบมักนำเสนอในพื้นที่ที่ผู้อ่านสามารถเข้าถึงได้ง่ายกว่าและมักจะได้รับความสนใจมากกว่าภาพตัวแทนด้านบวก ผลการวิเคราะห์วิถีปฏิบัติทางสังคมวัฒนธรรมพบว่า ปัจจัยทางสังคมที่มีอิทธิพลต่อการผลิตตัวบท ได้แก่ สถานการณ์ด้านการอาชีวศึกษาในสังคมไทย กฎหมายและนโยบายเกี่ยวกับการอาชีวศึกษา แนวคิดที่มีในสังคมวัฒนธรรมไทย ได้แก่ แนวคิดเรื่องการเป็นเจ้าคนนายคน ค่านิยมที่มีต่อการเรียนสายสามัญและปริญญาบัตร บทบาทของผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาในเหตุการณ์สำคัญ กล่าวโดยสรุป ผลการศึกษานี้เผยให้เห็นว่าภาพตัวแทนผู้เรียนอาชีวศึกษาในวาทกรรมสื่อมวลชนและวาทกรรมสื่อภาครัฐถูกคัดเลือกบางด้านมานำเสนอให้โดดเด่นตามวัตถุประสงค์ของผู้ผลิตวาทกรรม ความตระหนักรู้ดังกล่าวน่าจะนำไปสู่การรับสารอย่างมีวิจารณญาณและการนำเสนอข่าวอย่างรอบด้านปราศจากการแฝงอคติ ซึ่งน่าจะมีส่วนช่วยส่งเสริมการอาชีวศึกษาให้ประสบความสำเร็จตามเป้าหมาย