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The Miracle Drug Hiding In Your Morning Coffee: Taking A Closer Look At The World's Caffeine Habit And Its Protective Benefits, Anna Slebonick

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Authentic Animal-Free Dairy: Going Vegan Made Easier By Milk-Producing Bacteria, Sydney Rosensaft

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Covid-19 Vaccine Development: Why Does Vaccine Development Take So Long — And How Is It Being Sped Up For Covid-19?, Claire Nave

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: What If Trauma And Stress Could Be Genetically Inherited?, Bhavana Huliyar

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Do We Know How Covid-19 Works Yet? In Short: Maybe., Ethan Pochna

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Idcube Lite: Free Interactive Discovery Cube Software For Multi- And Hyperspectral Applications, Deependra Mishra, Helena Hurbon, John Wang, Steven T. Wang, Tommy Du, Qian Wu, David Kim, Shiva Basir, Maria Gerasimchuk-Djordjevic, For Complete List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

College of Arts and Letters

Multi- and hyperspectral imaging modalities encompass a growing number of spectral techniques that find many applications in geospatial, biomedical, machine vision and other fields. The rapidly increasing number of applications requires convenient easy-to-navigate software that can be used by new and experienced users to analyse data, and develop, apply and deploy novel algorithms. Herein, we present our platform, IDCube Lite, an Interactive Discovery Cube that performs essential operations in hyperspectral data analysis to realise the full potential of spectral imaging. The strength of the software lies in its interactive features that enable the users to optimise parameters and obtain visual …

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Activities Of Daily Living And Working Memory In Pediatric Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd), Lauren N. Irwin, Elia F. Soto, Elizabeth S.M. Chan, Caroline E. Miller, Shana Carrington-Forde, Nicole B. Groves, Michael J. Kofler

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Most children with ADHD have impaired working memory abilities. These working memory deficits predict impairments in activities of daily living (ADLs) for adults with ADHD. However, our understanding of the relation between pediatric ADHD and ADLs is limited. Thus, this study aimed to examine (1) the extent to which pediatric ADHD is associated with ADL difficulties; and if so (2) the extent to which these difficulties are related to their well-documented working memory difficulties and/or core ADHD inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive symptom domains. A well-characterized, clinically evaluated sample of 141 children ages 8–13 years (M = 10.36, SD = 1.46; 51 …

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Findings Of The Nlp4if-2021 Shared Tasks On Fighting The Covid-19 Infodemic And Censorship Detection, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alex Nikolov, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, Anna Feldman

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We present the results and the main findings of the NLP4IF-2021 shared tasks. Task 1 focused on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in social media, and it was offered in Arabic, Bulgarian, and English. Given a tweet, it asked to predict whether that tweet contains a verifiable claim, and if so, whether it is likely to be false, is of general interest, is likely to be harmful, and is worthy of manual fact-checking; also, whether it is harmful to society, and whether it requires the attention of policy makers. Task 2 focused on censorship detection, and was offered in Chinese. A …

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Face Masking Violations, Policing, And Covid-19 Death Rates: A Spatial Analysis In New York City Zip Codes, Tse-Chuan Yang, Seulki Kim, Stephen A. Matthews

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The use of face masks during a pandemic and compliance with state and local mandates has been a divisive issue in the United States. We document variation in face masking violation rates involving police enforcement in New York City and examine the association between police-enforced face masking violations and COVID-19-related death rates. We assemble a Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) code–level data set from the New York City Open Data, Department of Health, and the American Community Survey (2014–2018). We use maps to demonstrate the spatial patterning of police-enforced face masking violation rates and COVID-19-related death rates. Using a Bayesian spatial …

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Algorithmic Responsibility, Algorithmic Bias, Darla Jackson

Other Faculty Publications

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Federal (De)Funding Of Local Police, Roger Michalski, Stephen Rushin

Faculty Articles

Across the political spectrum, politicians, commentators, and activists frequently invoke federal funding as a lever to induce changes in local police behavior. But can federal funding function as an effective policy lever at the local level? Is federal funding or the threat of defunding a sufficiently strong tool to effectuate deeply contentious policy goals over local opposition? This Essay conducts an empirical examination of federal funding for local and state police agencies in the United States. It finds that the federal government remains a relatively minor contributor to local police budgets. We find that federal funding only reaches a minority …

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Enhancing The National Assessment System To Improve Learning Outcomes In Bhutan: Case Study 2020-2021, Anu Radha Sharma, Anannya Chakraborty, Arjun Kumar Gurung

Assessment and Reporting

To measure the efficacy of school sector interventions, Bhutan Council for School Examinations and Assessment (BCSEA) partnered with Australian Council for Educational Research (India) to strengthen its National Education Assessment (NEA) for obtaining evidence on learning, monitoring the progress of learning outcomes, understanding associations between context and achievement, and differences in achievement between groups. Eventually, the assessment reform will support measuring learning at the key stages of grades 3, 6, and 9. This case study report presents an overview of this project.

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Book Review: Leonid Grinin. Macrohistory And Globalization, Stephen T. Satkiewicz

Comparative Civilizations Review

The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is once quoted as saying, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” There should be a parallel statement about how some books state extraordinarily little in multiple pages, but others speak volumes in mere sentences. A good example of the latter would be Macrohistory and Globalization by another Russian: Leonid Grinin.

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The World System, Regional Systems, And The Limitations Of Historical Urban Population Datasets, Karl E. Ryavec

Comparative Civilizations Review

This study presents a method for mapping and comparing the regional extents of historical city-based economies at the global scale by integrating the World-Systems Theory of Immanuel Wallerstein with the Regional Systems Theory of G. W. Skinner. The approach taken here focuses on mapping urban cores and their rural peripheries based on available disaggregated urban population estimates for 1741 cities according to six main historical periods from ca. 3700 BCE to 1900 CE. As a result, a spatial history of some regional-scale changes wrought by increasing modes of capitalism in the Modern and Industrial periods may be compared with earlier …

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Effect Of Mutation And Vaccination On Spread, Severity, And Mortality Of Covid-19 Disease, Dr Hossam Zawbaa, Hasnaa Osama, Ahmed El‐Gendy, Haitham Saeed, Hadeer S. Harb, Yasmin M. Madney, Mona Abdelrahman, Marwa Mohsen, Ahmed M.A. Ali, Mina Nicola, Marwa O. Elgendy, Ihab A. Ibrahim, Mohamed E.A. Abdelrahim

Articles

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had different waves within the same country. The spread rate and severity showed different properties within the COVID-19 different waves. The present work aims to compare the spread and the severity of the different waves using the available data of confirmed COVID-19 cases and death cases. Real-data sets collected from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science were used to perform a comparative study between COVID-19 different waves in 12 countries with the highest total performed tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 detection in the world (Italy, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Spain, India, …

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Event-Driven Servers Using Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Network I/O: Performance Evaluation Of Kqueue And Epoll, Lorcan Leonard

Dissertations

This research project evaluates the performance of kqueue and epoll in the context of event-driven servers. The evaluation is done through benchmarking and tracing which are used to measure throughput and execution time respectively. The experiment is repeated for both a virtualised and native server environment. The results from the experiment are statistically analysed and compared. These results show significant differences between kqueue and epoll, and a profound impact of virtualisation as a variable.

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Socioeconomic Challenges Of California Strawberry Production And Disease Resistant Cultivars, Julie Guthman, Estelí Jiménez-Soto

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Strawberries are the 4th highest grossing crop in California and supply 90% of US strawberries. But the industry's long reliance on the use of chemical fumigants to control soil disease, nematodes and weeds is being threatened by increased regulation of these fumigants, leading to urgent efforts to develop and test non-chemical alternatives to fumigation, such as disease resistant cultivars. Many of these technologies are promising ecologically, but making them economically viable for growers is more challenging, especially in light of the socioeconomic context of strawberry production in California that has created a state of lock-in for a sustainability transition. This …

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Classification Of 4-Point Regular Triangle-Free Graphs, Grey Mccarthy

Student Scholarship

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Revealing Topology With Transformation Optics, Lizhen Lu, Kun Ding, Emanuele Galiffi, Xikui Ma, Tianyu Dong, J. B. Pendry

Advanced Science Research Center

Symmetry deepens our insight into a physical system and its interplay with topology enables the discovery of topological phases. Symmetry analysis is conventionally performed either in the physical space of interest, or in the corresponding reciprocal space. Here we borrow the concept of virtual space from transformation optics to demonstrate how a certain class of symmetries can be visualised in a transformed, spectrally related coordinate space, illuminating the underlying topological transitions. By projecting a plasmonic system in a higher-dimensional virtual space onto a lower-dimensional system in real space, we show how transformation optics allows us to construct a topologically non-trivial …

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Of The Wide-Eyed In Uncertain Times: The Education Of Girls During The Third Reich, Ingmar D. Clausing

Master's Theses

The aim of this thesis is to describe how both the state school system and the Hitler Youth educated girls during the Third Reich. Conventional theories have suggested a number of ideological suppositions regarding the overall curricular emphasis, but this study contends that such simplistic determinations do not capture the full spread of the educational experience. This thesis asks if girls in Nazi Germany were truly just indoctrinated or if schooling had legitimate academic purposes. Based on actual textbooks that were studied by girls for every subject area, at different grade levels, and in different types of schools, as well …

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Multi-Scale Virtual Field Experience, Madeline S. Marshall, Melinda C. Higley

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Field experiences are a critical component of undergraduate geoscience education; however, traditional onsite field experiences are not always practical due to accessibility, and the popularity of alternative modes of learning in higher education is increasing. One way to support student access to field experiences is through virtual field trips, implemented either independently or in conjunction with in-person field trips. We created a virtual field trip (VFT) to Grand Ledge, a regionally important suite of sedimentary outcrops in central lower Michigan, USA. This VFT undertakes all stages of a field project, from question development and detailed observation through data collection to …

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Biogeographic-Stratigraphic-And-Environmental-Distribution-Of-Basilosaurus-Mammalia-Cetacea-In-North-America-With-A-Review-Of-The-Late-Eocene-Shoreline-In-The-Southeastern-Coastal-Plain, Kathlyn M. Smith, Alexander K. Hastings, Ryan M. Bebej, Mark D. Uhen

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

A new specimen of Basilosaurus cetoides was discovered on the banks of the Flint River in Albany, Georgia, USA, in 2010. This fossil, which was the most complete specimen of the species from Georgia to date, consisted of five nearly complete and two partial post-thoracic vertebrae, tentatively identified as S4 through Ca6. During excavation, however, the site was looted and most of the specimen was lost to science. Nonetheless, we use this discovery as an opportunity to update the current state of knowledge on the stratigraphic, biogeographic, and environmental distribution of Basilosaurus in North America, as well as the position …

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Higher Homotopy Invariants For Spaces And Maps, David Blanc, Mark W. Johnson

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

For a pointed topological space X, we use an inductive construction of a simplicial resolution of X by wedges of spheres to construct a “higher homotopy structure” for X (in terms of chain complexes of spaces). This structure is then used to define a collection of higher homotopy invariants which suffice to recover X up to weak equivalence. It can also be used to distinguish between different maps f : X → Y which induce the same morphism f∗ : π∗X → π∗Y.

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School Programming For Homelessness: Perspectives Of Families And Local Homeless Liaisons, Jazlynn J. Paige

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Thisdissertation focuses on children experiencing homelessness and the effects homelessness has on their academic achievement from the perspective of the children, their parents, and local homeless liaisons. More importantly, this research explores what educators can do to create a positive, supportive, and stable environment at school for children experiencing homelessness by implementing an effective program or a number of support services. Data for the current study were gathered through phone and face-to-face interviews. The participants were 10 parent and child dyads living in a shelter and three school homeless liaisons. The semi-structured interviews focused on the resources, or lack thereof, …

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A Static Code Analysis And Pattern Recognition Algorithm-Driven, Quantitative, Mathematical Model-Oriented Risk Assessment Framework Of Cloud-Based Health Information Applications, Dennis B. Park

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

According to a survey, the healthcare industry is one of the least cloud-adopting industries. The low adoption reflects the healthcare industry's ongoing concerns about the security of the cloud. Business applications, according to another survey, are among the most vulnerable components of business information systems. Many risk assessment frameworks available today, particularly for health information applications, require significant customization before they can be used. This study created a new framework to assess cloud risks specifically for their health information applications, utilizing data-driven risk assessment methodologies to avoid surveys, interviews, and meetings for data collection. For the feasibility study, the open-source …

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A Culturally And Structurally Sensitive Approach To Working With Suicidal Latinx Individuals: Recommendations For Clinicians, Jessa Navidé

Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects

Latinx individuals are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the U.S. and confront numerous challenges living in the U.S. that can impact their mental health. While their overall suicide rates are relatively low compared to non-Hispanic Whites, it is concerning to note suicide rates of Latinx individuals living in the U.S. are significantly higher compared to most countries in Latin America. The predominant approaches to treating suicidal individuals often fail to consider the sociopolitical climate and systemic challenges that exacerbate mental health concerns for Latinx individuals. This paper examines cultural considerations, racial and ethnic identity models, and unique protective and …

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Imsa 2021 Profile, Office Of College And Academic Counseling

IMSA Profile

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Strategies For Modifying Word Problems For English Learners, Ricela Feliciano-Semidei, Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

In this article, we discuss strategies to support the thematic integration of content in literacy and mathematics connected to English Learners’ (ELs) diverse cultural backgrounds. We provide strategies by which students can make sense of word problems connected to their real-life experiences through mathematical discussions and justifications, and linked to the literacy processes of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. We use the Common Core Addendum for English Learners and the standards of mathematical practices to support literacy and mathematics learning. We also present several examples of mathematics word problems teachers can use in elementary school classrooms that are culturally responsive …

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Understanding Middle School Students’ Enrollment Choice For A Fully Online Educational Environment During The Fall Of 2020 Covid-19 National Health Emergency: A Mixed Methods Study, Wendy Maltais Duvall

Theses and Dissertations--Curriculum and Instruction

Students’ choice in enrolling in a distance learning environment was examined in a mixed methods study in the fall of 2020 during the COVID-19 national health emergency of that same year. After state mandated school closures in the spring 2020, students statewide were forced into a fully online learning situation until the end of that semester. In the fall, the district that was the study site offered families the choice of either hybrid or fully distance learning environments where students could attend school during the national health crisis that had persisted. That choice would be in force for the full …

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The Miracle Drug Hiding In Your Morning Coffee: Taking A Closer Look At The World's Caffeine Habit And Its Protective Benefits, Anna Slebonick

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

Authentic Animal-Free Dairy: Going Vegan Made Easier By Milk-Producing Bacteria, Sydney Rosensaft

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

Covid-19 Vaccine Development: Why Does Vaccine Development Take So Long — And How Is It Being Sped Up For Covid-19?, Claire Nave

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: What If Trauma And Stress Could Be Genetically Inherited?, Bhavana Huliyar

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

Do We Know How Covid-19 Works Yet? In Short: Maybe., Ethan Pochna

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

Meet The Staff

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

Idcube Lite: Free Interactive Discovery Cube Software For Multi- And Hyperspectral Applications, Deependra Mishra, Helena Hurbon, John Wang, Steven T. Wang, Tommy Du, Qian Wu, David Kim, Shiva Basir, Maria Gerasimchuk-Djordjevic, For Complete List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

College of Arts and Letters

Activities Of Daily Living And Working Memory In Pediatric Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd), Lauren N. Irwin, Elia F. Soto, Elizabeth S.M. Chan, Caroline E. Miller, Shana Carrington-Forde, Nicole B. Groves, Michael J. Kofler

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Findings Of The Nlp4if-2021 Shared Tasks On Fighting The Covid-19 Infodemic And Censorship Detection, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alex Nikolov, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, Anna Feldman

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Face Masking Violations, Policing, And Covid-19 Death Rates: A Spatial Analysis In New York City Zip Codes, Tse-Chuan Yang, Seulki Kim, Stephen A. Matthews

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Algorithmic Responsibility, Algorithmic Bias, Darla Jackson

Other Faculty Publications

Federal (De)Funding Of Local Police, Roger Michalski, Stephen Rushin

Faculty Articles

Enhancing The National Assessment System To Improve Learning Outcomes In Bhutan: Case Study 2020-2021, Anu Radha Sharma, Anannya Chakraborty, Arjun Kumar Gurung

Assessment and Reporting

Book Review: Leonid Grinin. Macrohistory And Globalization, Stephen T. Satkiewicz

Comparative Civilizations Review

The World System, Regional Systems, And The Limitations Of Historical Urban Population Datasets, Karl E. Ryavec

Comparative Civilizations Review

Articles

Event-Driven Servers Using Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Network I/O: Performance Evaluation Of Kqueue And Epoll, Lorcan Leonard

Dissertations

Socioeconomic Challenges Of California Strawberry Production And Disease Resistant Cultivars, Julie Guthman, Estelí Jiménez-Soto

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Classification Of 4-Point Regular Triangle-Free Graphs, Grey Mccarthy

Student Scholarship

Revealing Topology With Transformation Optics, Lizhen Lu, Kun Ding, Emanuele Galiffi, Xikui Ma, Tianyu Dong, J. B. Pendry

Advanced Science Research Center

Of The Wide-Eyed In Uncertain Times: The Education Of Girls During The Third Reich, Ingmar D. Clausing

Master's Theses

Multi-Scale Virtual Field Experience, Madeline S. Marshall, Melinda C. Higley

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Biogeographic-Stratigraphic-And-Environmental-Distribution-Of-Basilosaurus-Mammalia-Cetacea-In-North-America-With-A-Review-Of-The-Late-Eocene-Shoreline-In-The-Southeastern-Coastal-Plain, Kathlyn M. Smith, Alexander K. Hastings, Ryan M. Bebej, Mark D. Uhen

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Higher Homotopy Invariants For Spaces And Maps, David Blanc, Mark W. Johnson

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

School Programming For Homelessness: Perspectives Of Families And Local Homeless Liaisons, Jazlynn J. Paige

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Static Code Analysis And Pattern Recognition Algorithm-Driven, Quantitative, Mathematical Model-Oriented Risk Assessment Framework Of Cloud-Based Health Information Applications, Dennis B. Park

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Culturally And Structurally Sensitive Approach To Working With Suicidal Latinx Individuals: Recommendations For Clinicians, Jessa Navidé

Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects

Imsa 2021 Profile, Office Of College And Academic Counseling

IMSA Profile

Strategies For Modifying Word Problems For English Learners, Ricela Feliciano-Semidei, Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Understanding Middle School Students’ Enrollment Choice For A Fully Online Educational Environment During The Fall Of 2020 Covid-19 National Health Emergency: A Mixed Methods Study, Wendy Maltais Duvall

Theses and Dissertations--Curriculum and Instruction