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Sustainability In The Fashion Industry: Two Case Studies Highlighting Consumer Purchasing Actions Related To Brand Sustainability, Allison Zhang

Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Projects

The rise of competition in the fashion industry has called for companies to differentiate themselves. One way of differentiation that has been seen in recent years is an increase in sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. This paper explores the use of press releases by fashion companies to see if the releases impact the companies’ bottom line. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if sustainability related press releases impact consumers in the United States decision making in purchasing products or supporting certain brands or companies. To conduct this study, yearly and quarterly financial data was collected to find trends …

Reviewing Pesticide Impacts On Frogs To Suggest Management Applications In The Gambles Mill Eco-Corridor, Marc Gorman

Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Projects

For years, frog populations have been declining due to a variety of anthropogenic sources, including pesticide use. Pesticides work by inhibiting bodily functions in their target pest species, though they frequently have unintentional impacts on other life forms in an ecosystem. Some researchers have evaluated these effects, but their studies mainly focus on finding an LC50 - a concentration that will kill 50% of their test species sample. However, these LC50 levels are often higher than what would be found in nature, and pesticides have been shown to still impact species at lower concentrations. Thus, this study attempted to summarize …

Pollinator Habitat On The University Of Richmond Campus: Assessing The Success Of Pollinator Meadows In The Gambles Mill Eco-Corridor, Mary Berner

Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Projects

Globally, many insect pollinator populations are declining in response to anthropogenic harms including habitat loss due to land-use change and urbanization, climate change, increasing pesticide use, invasive species introductions, and increased pathogen transmission. In order to protect these insects, and the benefits they provide through pollination, habitat must be protected. Much of the effort to protect insect pollinator habitat is occurring in urban areas, where pollinators may struggle to find the resources they need to survive. The purpose of this study was to assess the success of three pollinator meadows created within the Gambles Mill Eco-Corridor (Eco-Corridor) on the University …

Senior Named Um's First Rangel Fellow, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

Charlotte Armistead awarded State Department fellowship to prepare students for foreign service

Fractal And Edge-Based Techniques For Kidney Enhancement And Segmentation On Magnetic Resonance Images (Mri), Alaá Rateb Mahmoud Al-Shamasneh

Student Works (2020-2029)

Recently, many rapid developments in digital medical imaging have made further contributions to healthcare systems. However, the segmentation of regions of interest in medical images plays a vital role in assisting doctors in their medical diagnoses and for the early detection of disease. Since health issues related to the kidneys are increasing exponentially, this thesis focused on developing methods for the segmentation of MRI images of the kidney. Kidney images frequently suffer from low contrast, low resolution and noise, and are blur. Hence, it is necessary to enhance the images in order to improve the segmentation. Therefore, the current thesis …

A Case Of A Nonpetrous Cholesterol Granuloma Presenting As A Temporal Mass, Nathaniel Reeve, Jacob Kahane, Matthew Ng

School of Medicine Faculty Research

Objective. A case of a skull base cholesterol granuloma (CG) of the squamosal temporal bone. This is the first ever reported case of CG in a well-pneumatized squamous temporal bone. Design. Case report and review of the literature. Discussion. CG is a cystic mass typically found in the petrous apex and occasionally in the paranasal sinuses and orbit. Experience with the treatment of these expansile and inflammatory processes has largely been garnered from those occurring in the petrous apex, where they are surgically drained, via a transtympanic, transmastoid, or middle fossa approach. We report a case of cholesterol granuloma situated …

Probing The Impacts Of Ultra-Low Platinum Loadings On Membrane Degradation Mechanisms, Andre J. Spears

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

Membrane chemical degradation is one of many factors that can impact fuel cell durability. The fuel cell’s performance and lifetime heavily depends on the membrane and its ability to maintain chemical and mechanical integrity. In Nafion^® membranes, hydroxyl radicals are the primary cause of chemical membrane degradation as they attack the membrane’s polymer structure. Radical formation can ensue via peroxide decomposition at the cathode or gases reacting on Pt particles or contaminants like Fe (a fenton's reagent) within the membrane. As radicals attack the membrane’s polymer structure the membrane thins, and fluoride and sulfate ions are released. This consequently …

A Study Of Fremont Snake Valley Black-On-Gray Ceramics From Sites In Northern Utah And The Parowan Valley, Stephanie K.Y. Abo

Theses and Dissertations

Archaeologists widely argue that Fremont potters from the Parowan Valley, in southwestern Utah, manufactured Snake Valley pottery. For my thesis, I examined Snake Valley Black-on-gray rim sherds using neutron activation analysis, oxidation analysis, metric data, and statistical methods. I compared my results on Snake Valley Black-on-gray sherds from three archaeological sites within the Parowan Valley (Paragonah, Parowan, and Evans Mound) to my results on Snake Valley Black-on-gray sherds recovered from three archaeological sites over 250 kilometers to the north (South Temple, Block 49, and Wolf Village). I argue that the Snake Valley Black-on-gray ceramics from the northern sites are tradewares …

Instructional Case Studies In The Field Of Windfarm Optimization, N. Francesco Baker

Theses and Dissertations

Wind farm layout optimization is a multidisciplinary undertaking, requiring students and researchers to integrate many skillsets in order to optimize turbine placement. There is currently a lack of useful benchmarking exercises for participants in the field to compare the efficacy of their methods. This work details the construction and completion of a set of four case studies meant to satisfy this need, with the hope of providing some insight into useful layout optimization approaches. These case studies are intended to also serve as instructive introductory exercises with which newcomers researching wind energy may incrementally practice and increase their abilities.The first …

Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2020, Tennessee. Department Of Treasury.

TCRS Financial Reports

No abstract provided.

Elementary Teachers’ Responsiveness To Supporting Students’ Engineering Design Feedback, Jeffrey Radloff, Brenda Capobianco

Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications

Using engineering design to teach science requires teachers to engage in noticing, interpreting, and responding to students’ needs in real-time. While research has begun to focus on how elementary teachers do so, less is known about how teachers instructionally support and optimize students’ ideas through engineering design feedback. In this study we investigate what instructional moves two elementary teachers’ employ to leverage students’ ideas and reasoning and create opportunities for students to exchange design feedback. Data were gathered using classroom observations of teachers’ implementations of a design task focused on sound and energy transformation. Observations were coded for teachers’ use …

Review Of Memory Lab Network Resources, Annie E. Tummino, Tomasz Gubernat, Jeanie Pai

Publications and Research

Review of Memory Lab Network resources for American Archivist Reviews, a portal which highlights websites, digital collections, and technologies that have an impact on the archives profession. The authors review the resources published by the Memory Lab Network and discuss their own work building a Memory Lab at the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library of Queens College, CUNY.

Brief Of Religious Liberty Scholars As Amici Curiae In Support Of Defendants-Appellants, Michael Francisco, Richard W. Garnett

Court Briefs

No. SJC-12988
Margaret DeWeese-Boyd v. Gordon College

On Appeal from a Judgment of the Essex County Superior Court

From the Introduction

In the decision below, the trial court adopted a miserly understanding of the ministerial exception. It refused to apply it to a professor who taught social work at Gordon College, a Christian liberal arts school founded in 1889 which has a mission stating a "commitment to integrating faith and learning" and to "provide instruction in the Bible and other subjects" to prepare students "for the duties of the Christian ministry and other special forms of Christian work." RA/144,215. The …

Ohio University Faculty Senate Minutes December 14, 2020, Ohio University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Conversational Ontology Operator: Patient-Centric Vaccine Dialogue Management Engine For Spoken Conversational Agents, Muhammad Amith, Rebecca Z Lin, Licong Cui, Dennis Wang, Anna Zhu, Grace Xiong, Hua Xu, Kirk Roberts, Cui Tao

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Previously, we introduced our Patient Health Information Dialogue Ontology (PHIDO) that manages the dialogue and contextual information of the session between an agent and a health consumer. In this study, we take the next step and introduce the Conversational Ontology Operator (COO), the software engine harnessing PHIDO. We also developed a question-answering subsystem called Frankenstein Ontology Question-Answering for User-centric Systems (FOQUS) to support the dialogue interaction.

METHODS: We tested both the dialogue engine and the question-answering system using application-based competency questions and questions furnished from our previous Wizard of OZ simulation trials.

RESULTS: Our results revealed that the dialogue …

Week Of December 14, 2020, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Leader in Academic Medicine, Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H., Is Tapped to Address the Class of 2021
• NYMC Unveils Pandemic Perspectives
• D.P.T. Class of 2022 Community Service Projects Adapt to the Virtual World
• 17th Annual Louis R.M. DelGuercio Research Day to Take Place Virtually on December 16
• HSL Annual Faculty Author Awards Set for December 17

Monitoring Urbon Exponsion For Irbid City By Using Remote Sensing & Gis (1953-1999)., S. Duheisat, O. Dhaimat

Mansoura Engineering Journal

This study was related to the urban development of Irbid City during 1955 - 1999 by using remote sensing technique and geographic information system. The results of the study indicated that the size of the city was increased 46 times through various directions based on images of 1978, towards south and east by using images of 1984, and towards north and east up to 1989. But images of 1995 showed that the urban development relatively covered the cold agricultural lands and connected with surrounded villages such as Saal, Bushra, Howaru, Aidon, Hakama, and Baitras. Besides that, images of 1999 indicated …

Optimal Operation For A Faulted Pv System Using Genetic Algorithm., Sahar Sidky Kaddah

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The need to optimize the operation of PV systems is justified by the fact that PV systems are expensive to build, fuel- free source, and it is therefore natural that user of sulci systems would want them to perform it their most optimal point. Under the faulted condition, the power curve has a multi-picture; conventional optimization techniques can easily fall down in local optimal and initial point problems. Genetic algorithm as a global optimization technique is adopted to optimize photovoltaic power system under different faulted conditions. The proposed PV system and GA scheme is tested for the three-array PV system …

Emission Characteristics From Vehicles At Idling Condition., A. Elzahaby, A. Bawady, A. Kabeel, S. Wilson, A. El Dabaa

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The present study aims to evaluate the emission characteristics for gasoline-fueled vehicles at idling condition. Factors influencing the formation of emissions at different operating conditions are examined. The study is focused on the ignition parameters as well as the mixture quality which are the most important factors affecting the engine performance and emission. A wide range of spark plug gap(0.3- 1.9) mm and ignition timing (10- 1900 BTDC)were employed in the present study. The mixture quality at idling is varied along the flammability limit to clarify its effect on the combustion products concentration. The measurements were carried out on a …

Evaluating Emission Characteristics From Vehicles At Road Test With Different Operating Conditions., A. El-Zahaby, A. Kabeel, A. Bawady, S. Wilson, A. Eidabaa

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The present work aims to introduce a new method to evaluate emission characteristics from vehicles al road test condition. The technique is characterized by introducing unique factors representing the equivalent toxic effect of the exhaust species. The method depends on measuring the concentration of exhaust species and calculating a factor called 'conditioned ton" taking into consideration the toxic weight of each species relative to CO. For this purpose, a series of measurements were carried out on a specified vehicle to prevent vehicle to-vehicle variation. The vehicle is equipped with an infrared gas analyzer and a magnetic pickup transducer to measure …

Theoretical And Experimental Lnvestigation On The Absorption Refrigeration Systems., A. Elzahaby, Ahmed Mohamed Kandel, A. Kabeel, M. Elseady

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In the present work, a theoretical model is developed to study the single-effect absorption refrigeration cycle from the thermodynamic point of view for lithium bromide-water pair und lithium chloride-water pair. The effect of different operating (temperatures on the coefficient of performance (COP) and low ratio (FR) (the weak solution mass flow rate with reference to the refrigerant 113ss low rule) are investigated. This generation process in cui absorption refrigeration cycle using lithium chloride-Water solution is the working pair is experimentally studied. From the theoretical study, it is found that the COP increases an within increases in generation temperature until a …

Approved, Mechanical Engineering, December 14, 2020, Program Review Committee

Program Review Committee

No abstract provided.

Ohio University Faculty Senate Agenda December 14, 2020, Ohio University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Analyses Of The 2020 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine: Taking The Hepatitis C Virus From Mystery Killer To Preventable And Treatable Disease, Neyda V. Gilman

Library Scholarship

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice share the 2020 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for their contributions to the identification, treatment, and eventual elimination of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The then novel molecular techniques they used have laid the groundwork for future work on HCV and other viruses. This article will give a brief overview of the hepatitis disease and the work of this year's laureates. It will also take a bibliometric look at the scientist’s research and add to the discussions about the way modern science is done and the limitations of prestigious science awards …

Soft Power And Human Development In Central Asia, Cheryl White

Honors Theses

Due to the wealth of natural resources and the strategic geographic location of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, these two countries have attracted a significant amount of soft power investments, including foreign direct investment, non-government organizations, and infrastructure development. This paper compares the fluctuations in the soft power measurements to the levels of human development in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The findings show highly similar changes in the amount soft power investments to the level of human development indicators, suggesting a strong correlation between the two measures. A methodological analysis and further data sets would be necessary to determine the connection though.

State Of Utah, Appellee V. Russell Keith Harper, Appellant : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

ON APPEAL FROM A SENTE,7\TC,'E, JUDGMENT, AND COMMITMENT ENTERED ON AUGUST 28, 2019, BY THE HONORABLE DOUGLAS B. THOMAS OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, IN AND FOR CARBON COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH

Jeffrey D. Mann, Assistant Attorney's General

K. ANDREW FITZGERALD

The State Of Utah, Plaintiff/ Appellee V. Dylan James Kitzmiller, Defendant Appellant., Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from a conviction for two counts of child abuse, second-degree felonies in violation of Utah Code section 76-5-109(2)(a). The conviction followed a jury trial in the Third Judicial District, in and for Salt Lake County, State of Utah, the Honorable William K. Kendall presiding.

WILLIAM M. HAINS, SEAN D. REYES, Attorney for Appellee

WENDY M. BROWN, Attorney for Appellant

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (December 14, 2020), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on December 14, 2020.

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound In Association With Serum Biomarkers For Differentiating Combined Hepatocellular-Cholangiocarcinoma From Hepatocellular Carcinoma And Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma., Jie Yang, Ya-Han Zhang, Jia-Wu Li, Ying-Yu Shi, Jia-Yan Huang, Yan Luo, Ji-Bin Liu, Qiang Lu

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma (CHC) is a rare type of primary liver cancer. Due to its complex histopathological characteristics, the imaging features of CHC can overlap with those of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC).

AIM: To investigate the possibility and efficacy of differentiating CHC from HCC and ICC by using contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) and tumor biomarkers.

METHODS: Between January 2016 and December 2019, patients with histologically confirmed CHC, ICC and HCC with chronic liver disease were enrolled. The diagnostic formula for CHC was as follows: (1) LR-5 or LR-M with elevated alpha-fetoprotein …

Watson V. Nycha-Brevoort Houses

All Decisions

No abstract provided.