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The Doctrine Of Implied Honesty In Contract: Is Neither A Slippery Slope Nor A "New Vista" Of Contract Nullification That Should Concern Businesses Or Franchisors, John J. Jacko Iii

Emory Business Law Review

In the fourteen years since the New York Law Journal published Franchising: LJL Transportation, Contract Nullification by Franchisor, the sky has not fallen nor has the concept of honesty in contract slipped down any slope that threatens contract law generally or franchise systems, specifically. Time has proven the critic, the criticism, and any consternation for the franchise termination opinion in LJL Transportation, Inc. v. Pilot Air Freight Corp. and the implied honesty in contract doctrine to be wrong. One franchise contracts treatise embraces and cites the LJL case for the proposition that “[h]iding revenue from the franchisor in order to …

History, System, Principle, Analogy: Four Paradigms Of Legitimacy In European Law, Paul Linden-Retek

Journal Articles

The constitutional dimension of European Union law promises—in its most ambitious forms—reflexive structures of post-national democratic community. But this ambition poses profound philosophical challenges for how we think about the legitimacy of European judiciaries—the relation between legal decision-making and the ideal of post-national self-authorship. European constitutional law not only coordinates new forms of public power, but its jurisprudence also normatively justifies (or fails to justify) that power in what must be similarly reflexive discourses of legitimation.This article argues that theorists of European law have thus far paid too little attention to the thicker socio-cultural registers through which this legitimation occurs. …

Adaptive Uplink Data Rate Prediction And Networkselection In A Vehicular Mobile Channel, Georgi Nikolov

Theses

The rapid acceleration into the digital age brings a worldwide interconnectedness of an unprecedented level. This interconnectedness transforms the modern transportation network by linking its infrastructure components (e.g., signaling systems, traffic control systems, maintenance systems) together. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) can utilize this newly emerged network infrastructure, improving traffic safety, traffic control, and reducing transportation-related environmental impacts, changing the way drivers, businesses and governments deal with road transport. It is expected that in the near future self-aware vehicles (e.g., trains, cars or trucks) will constitute the majority of the transportation infrastructure. Vehicles need to be able to reliably communicate critical …

Comparison Of The Effects Of Land Use / Land Cover On Water Quality And The Intertidal Marine Macroalgae Communities At The Fluvial Outflows Of The Dingle Peninsula, Cassandra Lew

Theses

The Milltown, Feohanagh, and Owenmore river basins located on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland were studied to see how variation in land use and land cover (LU/LC) affected water quality and the macroalgal communities at each river’s respective fluvial outflow. Abundance and composition of macroalgae in river and coastal water bodies have been designated as an indicator of water quality according to the Water Framework Directive 2000. The results of this study found that the Feohanagh’s macroalgal community had the highest species richness for most months while the Milltown had the highest Shannon Diversity Index. The Owenmore’s community was consistently …

Physical Intimate Partner Violence, Childhood Physical Abuse And Mental Health Of U.S. Caribbean Women: The Interrelationship Of Social, Contextual, And Migratory Influences, Krims K. Lacey, Regina Parnell, Sasha R. Drummond-Lewis, Maxine Wood, Karen Powell Sears

Faculty Publications

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Data Science In Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need For Instructor Skills Training, Nathan C. Emery, Erika Crispo, Sarah R. Supp, Kaitlin J. Farrell, Andrew J. Kerkhoff

Faculty Publications

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A Statistical Analysis Of Drug Seizures And Opioid Overdose Deaths In Ohio From 2014 To 2018, David White, Lam Tran, Lin Ma

Faculty Publications

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Data Science In Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need For Instructor Skills Training, Nathan C. Emery, Erika Crispo, Sarah R. Supp, Kaitlin J. Farrell, Andrew J. Kerkhoff

Faculty Publications

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Estimating The Movements Of Terrestrial Animal Populations Using Broad-Scale Occurrence Data, Sarah R. Supp, Gil Bohrer, John Fieberg, Frank A. La Sorte

Faculty Publications

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Maturity And Personality: What Does It Mean To Be Mature?, Samuel Mazo

Student Scholarship

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Dancing To Unleash Creativity: The Science Behind Improvisational Dance's Impact On Creativity, Kailey Zaronias

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Microwaving Dreams? Why There Is No Point In Reheating The Hart-Dworkin Debate For International Law, Jason A. Beckett

Faculty Book Chapters

A critique of attempts to transpose Hart and Dworkin's legal theories to international law. I demonstrate why neither approach can provide insights into international law. Hart and Dworkin are institutional theorists, their methodologies are anchored by the need to justify the exercise of socially centralised violence. International law lacks both institutions and centralised violence, and the stabilising force these bring; it is radically indeterminate. Attempts to suppress this indeterminacy have resulted in international lawyers fragmenting into communities of practice, united by their eschatological faith in the international community. I challenge this faith.

The Deceptive Dyad: How Falseness Structures International Law, Jason A. Beckett

Faculty Journal Articles

Public International Law (PIL) is portrayed as an autonomous and tolerably just legal system. A determinable system of rules and principles, deployed by professionals to evaluate and constrain the global machinations of power politics. Law as an authoritative structure through which global justice can be pursued. This entrenches a comforting, but false, progress narrative; and obscures the limitations of pursuing progressive change through international law. PIL is structured by false necessity and false contingency. These interact to create the Deceptive Dyad, which disguises the radical indeterminacy of PIL. PIL’s purported demands, however meticulously crafted, do not effect change in the …

The Challenge Of Deterring Bad Police Behavior: Implementing Reforms That Hold Police Accountable, Robert M. Bloom, Nina Labovich

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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23 And Me: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Federal Class Actions & The Non-Party Approach, Bryce Sanders

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Remembering And Appreciating Judge Robert A. Katzmann, Joseph White

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Peter Gerhart On Good Faith: Following A Trail Of Breadcrumbs, James Gordley

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Predicting Material Properties: Applications Of Multi-Scale Multiphysics Numerical Modeling To Transport Problems In Biochemical Systems And Chemical Process Engineering, Tom Pace

Theses and Dissertations--Physics and Astronomy

Material properties are used in a wide variety of theoretical models of material behavior. Descriptive properties quantify the nature, structure, or composition of the material. Behavioral properties quantify the response of the material to an imposed condition. The central question of this work concerns the prediction of behavioral properties from previously determined descriptive properties through hierarchical multi-scale, multiphysics models implemented as numerical simulations. Applications covered focus on mass transport models, including sequential enzyme-catalyzed reactions in systems biology, and an industrial chemical process in a common reaction medium.

Vegf-A, Pdgf-Bb And Hb-Egf Engineered For Promiscuous Super Affinity To The Extracellular Matrix Improve Wound Healing In A Model Of Type 1 Diabetes, Michael J. White, Priscilla S. Briquez, David White, Jeffrey A. Hubbell

Faculty Publications

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Making The Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Mindset Indispensable In The Lis Classroom Through Design, Content, Communication, And Assessment, Kim M. Thompson, Clayton A. Copeland

Faculty Publications

When we incorporate diversity and inclusion into Library and Information Science course design and content and build communication and learning frameworks in the classroom on inclusive principles, we build a cohort of students who cannot “unsee” these basic principles as they engage in practice. By designing lecture and activity materials that allow students to read and engage with different perspectives about professional values and content, we create opportunities for awareness building and prepare students to engage with the same practices as they join the profession. This chapter provides insights for and examples of how to create courses that bring diversity, …

Analysis Of Social Media Discussions On (#)Diet By Blue, Red, And Swing States In The U.S, Amir Karami, A. A. Dahl, J. G. Shaw, S. P. Valappil, G. Turner-Mcgrievy, H. Kharrazi, P. Bozorgi

Faculty Publications

The relationship between political affiliations and diet-related discussions on social media has not been studied on a population level. This study used a cost- and -time effective framework to leverage, aggregate, and analyze data from social media. This paper enhances our understanding of diet-related discussions with respect to political orientations in U.S. states. This mixed methods study used computational methods to collect tweets containing “diet” or “#diet” shared in a year, identified tweets posted by U.S. Twitter users, disclosed topics of tweets, and compared democratic, republican, and swing states based on the weight of topics. A qualitative method was employed …

Automatic Categorization Of Lgbt User Profiles On Twitter With Machine Learning, Amir Karami, M. Lundy, F. Webb, H. R. Boyajieff, M. Zhu, D. Lee

Faculty Publications

Privacy needs and stigma pose significant barriers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people sharing information related to their identities in traditional settings and research methods such as surveys and interviews. Fortunately, social media facilitates people’s belonging to and exchanging information within online LGBT communities. Compared to heterosexual respondents, LGBT users are also more likely to have accounts on social media websites and access social media daily. However, the current relevant LGBT studies on social media are not efficient or assume that any accounts that utilize LGBT-related words in their profile belong to individuals who identify as LGBT. Our …

Speak Tool, Eric Rowles

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Speech instructors are important to help students speak accurately and clearly.

However, the most important part of learning is practice. Students can currently only practice while with their speech instructor.

This tool would allow students to practice while away from their instructor. This would help them learn more quickly and effectively.

Instructors would also be able to use this tool to monitor student progress.

Walkmatic, Chaz Cornwall, Ryan Berg

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Walkmatic is a baby push toy with automated steering to keep babies from pushing the toy into walls or down the stairs. Parents who are anxious to watch their child learn how to walk will often buy push toys to help their child stand up while they learn to walk. Unfortunately, parents must constantly guide the push toy to prevent the baby from pushing it into obstacles. This can take a toll on parents’ backs and knees. With the Walkmatic, parents can relax while they watch their baby play with their fun new toy.

When the Walkmatic is first …

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Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ความต้องการใช้พลังงานไฟฟ้าในประเทศไทยมีแนวโน้มที่เพิ่มขึ้น แต่เชื้อเพลิงที่ใช้เพื่อผลิตไฟฟ้าในประเทศส่วนมากยังเป็นเชื้อเพลิงจากทรัพยากรที่ใช้แล้วหมดไปซึ่งสร้างมลภาวะทางสิ่งแวดล้อม และส่งผลเสียต่อสุขภาพของมนุษย์ ประกอบกับแนวโน้มการลดลงของต้นทุนระบบผลิตไฟฟ้าจากพลังงานแสงอาทิตย์ ทำให้การใช้พลังงานแสงอาทิตย์เพื่อผลิตไฟฟ้าได้รับความนิยมในปัจจุบัน งานวิจัยนี้จึงมีจุดประสงค์เพื่อพัฒนาฐานข้อมูลหลังคาอาคารเพื่อการติดตั้งแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์ วิเคราะห์ศักยภาพของพื้นที่สำหรับการติดตั้งแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์บนหลังคาด้วยปัจจัยทางกายภาพและปัจจัยทางเทคนิคโดยใช้เทคโนโลยีภูมิสารสนเทศ และพัฒนาเว็บแอปพลิเคชันแสดงปริมาณพลังงานไฟฟ้าที่ผลิตได้และระดับศักยภาพของพื้นที่ มีพื้นที่ศึกษาอยู่ที่ ตำบลท่าอิฐ อำเภอปากเกร็ด จังหวัดนนทบุรี การพัฒนาฐานข้อมูลหลังคาอาคารใช้การจำแนกขอบเขตหลังคาด้วยเทคนิควิธีการเรียนรู้เชิงลึก (Deep Learning) โดยสร้างแบบจำลองเพื่อวาดขอบเขตหลังคาอาคารโดยใช้ข้อมูลจากภาพถ่ายจากดาวเทียม WorldView-3 จากนั้นจึงนำฐานข้อมูลไปใช้วิเคราะห์พลังงานไฟฟ้าที่ผลิตได้ และศักยภาพของพื้นที่ในการติดตั้งแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์ ผลการศึกษาพบว่า พื้นที่หลังคาทั้งหมดในพื้นที่ศึกษามีขนาดรวม 749,563.23 ตารางเมตร สามารถคำนวณค่าพลังงานไฟฟ้าที่ผลิตจากแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์บนหลังคาได้ 86.14 กิกะวัตต์-ชั่วโมงต่อปี หมู่บ้านที่มีระดับศักยภาพในการติดตั้งแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์ในระดับสูง ได้แก่ บ้านคลองชมพู่ และบ้านลาดสิงห์ ซึ่งมีศักยภาพในการผลิตไฟฟ้าได้จากแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์ได้มากกว่า 20 กิกะวัตต์-ชั่วโมงต่อปี ผลการวิจัยนี้สามารถประยุกต์ใช้เพื่อแนวทางในการพัฒนาฐานข้อมูล การประมาณค่าพลังงาน และศักยภาพในการติดตั้งแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์ในพื้นที่อื่นได้

Analyzing The Effect Of Second-Class Currents On Neutron Beta Decay Observables And The Effect Of Thomas Rotation On The Relativistic Transformations Of Electromagnetic Fields, Lakshya Malhotra

Theses and Dissertations--Physics and Astronomy

The next generation of neutron beta decay measurements will attempt to analyze various beta decay observables of up to O(10^-4) precision. At this level of experimental precision, the effects of second-class currents will contribute theoretical uncertainties to the interpretation of these measurements. Therefore, it is important to investigate the effects of these second-class currents on decay parameters, such as the Fierz interference term b which is linear in beyond standard model couplings. A maximum likelihood statistical framework and Rfit techniques are employed to study these second-class currents effects. Inputs to the Rfit technique are obtained through …

Strongly Correlated Phases In Quantum Hall Systems, Amartya Saha

Theses and Dissertations--Physics and Astronomy

Quantum Hall systems have a one-body energy spectrum consisting of dispersion-less Landau levels. Electron-electron interactions thus dominate in partially filled Landau levels, which exhibit a myriad of strongly correlated phases such as quantum hall ferromagnets and fractional quantum Hall phases. We study two examples of these phenomena.

In the first project, we explore the ground state of a system with an interface between two semi-infinite regions with fillings ν= 4 and ν= 3 respectively. The width of the interface can be controlled by varying the background potential, which provides an additional tuning parameter. For a certain range of …

Effective Field Theory Applications: From Dark Matter To Neutrino Nucleon Scattering, Qing Chen

Theses and Dissertations--Physics and Astronomy

Weakly-interacting-massive-particles (WIMPs) are a large class of viable dark matter candidates. We compute cross sections for electroweak-doublet WIMPs scattering on atomic nuclei, at leading and subleading order using heavy WIMP effective field theory. Neutrino-nucleon charged current elastic scattering is an important process in the detectors of long baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments. We compute QED radiative corrections to this process employing soft-collinear effective field theory.