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Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years Of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, And Disability-Adjusted Life Years For 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 To 2019: A Systematic Analysis For The Global Burden Of Disease Study 2019, Jonathan M. Kocarnik, Global Burden Of Disease 2019 Cancer Collaboration, Ali Artaman

All Works

Importance: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD 2019) provided systematic estimates of incidence, morbidity, and mortality to inform local and international efforts toward reducing cancer burden. Objective: To estimate cancer burden and trends globally for 204 countries and territories and by Sociodemographic Index (SDI) quintiles from 2010 to 2019. Evidence Review: The GBD 2019 estimation methods were used to describe cancer incidence, mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2019 and over the past decade. Estimates are also provided by quintiles of the SDI, a composite …

Gym Power Generation System: Exercise Bike Generator, Richard Beck, Cedric Mannie

Electrical and Computer Engineering

What?

• Design and build an exercise bike that produces power!

Why?

• Nobody likes pollution from burning fossil fuels.
• We need more renewable power sources.
• Energy from exercise is usually wasted.

Considerations:

• The bike needs to have adjustable resistance.
• The power produced needs to be usable.
• The system needs to be safe & user-friendly.

Pawtomatic Pet Door, James Cosgrove, Austin Hillyard

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Pet doors aren’t secure
• Pet doors don’t allow the user to restrict access to specific animals
• Pet doors that do lock/close must be locked/closed and reopened manually

Garden Helper Robot (Ghr), Tye Foster, Matthew Jacques, Joshua Mecham

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Engineer Joshua Mecham's grandfather Jerry Hansen loves to garden; however, Jerry's arthritis prevents him from pursuing his passion.

There had to be some way to incorporate an ordinary hose box into a mobile gardening bench. This solution would simultaneously water Jerry’s plants as well as provide a seat Jerry could use instead of getting on his hands and knees.

For this reason, the GHR was designed with people like Jerry in mind that want to continue their hobbies despite disabilities/sickness/age troubles.

The Module Tinkering Vehicle (Motiv), Steve Brezenski

Electrical and Computer Engineering

MoTiV is a remote-controlled car kit hat a user can assemble and add additional components to as desired.

The goal for MoTiV is to provide an introduction to electronics that:

• Appeals to a diverse audience, both experienced and novice
• Limits frustration on the part of the learner by working reliably and consistently
• Allows for new functionality to be added as desired with a method for easily updating device software

Infant Earmuff System, Beth Powell

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Infant Earmuff System allows caretakers to prevent hearing damage in infants when wearing the device.

• Infants have smaller ear canals and are therefore more susceptible to hearing damage than adults
• Hearing damage in infants is permanent but infants are bad at communicating if the noise level is too loud.
• The Infant Earmuff System allows caretakers to understand the level of noise an infant is hearing and whether that level is dangerous.

Real Life Jrpg, Jacob Wilson

Electrical and Computer Engineering

JRPG is a very popular video game genre, it’s turn based battle system allows the player to create interesting strategies impossible to find in real time games.

The goal of Real Life JRPG is to bring that experience away from the TV. Fight a dragon by actually swinging a sword.

Up to 3 players will work together to defeat the dragon, attacking it will Lower it’s health points and if the Dragons health points reach 0 the players win. But the Dragon will retaliate and if all players lose their health points, the dragon win.

Making Loud Noises Quiet, Logan Voigt, Nicholas Williams

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Guns are loud. Putting on ear protection takes time. Hunters need to listen for animals, so they can not wear ear protection constantly. Hunters have limited time to react when they see their target. They do not have time to put on ear protection. The Shot Silencer protects hunters’ hearing by actively noise cancelling the sound of the gunshot.

Sdgpu - Fpga Linux Gpu, Usu Department Of Electrical And Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Video output and accelerated rendering are an increasing important need for personal computers.
• FPGAs provide a hardware platform for reconfigurable hardware acceleration.
• This project involves designing and building a hardware platform, FPGA logic, and Linux driver stack for video output and accelerated rendering.
• Targeting a PCIe add-in card form factor with 1080p 60 Hz output via HMDI means the system works out of the box with nearly all modern hardware.
• An extensible software and HDL design serves to provide a platform for computational and graphical acceleration.

Mahanoy Area School District V. B.L.: The Court Protects Student Social Media But Leaves Unanswered Questions, David L. Hudson Jr.

Law Faculty Scholarship

In Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.: The Court Protects Student Social Media but Leaves Unanswered Questions, published in the Cato Supreme Court Review, David L. Hudson Jr. analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision addressing the scope of public schools’ authority over off-campus student speech on social media. Situating Mahanoy within the Court’s broader K–12 student speech jurisprudence—from Barnette and Tinker to Fraser, Hazelwood, and Morse—the Article explains how the Court declined to adopt a categorical rule excluding off-campus speech from regulation while nevertheless ruling in favor of the student. The majority recognized diminished school …

Card Barn, Taylor Nielson, Nicholas Wallace

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Create an automatic card storage system.

• The user first provides a stack of cards to be inventoried, and then allows the system to scan each card and store the scanned cards in a storage bin for later retrieval.
• The user can query the system for what cards are stored in the system, and the system will inform the user of which bin the desired card is in.

Enxor Open-Source Logic Analyzer, Matthew Crump

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professional grade logic analyzers can cost a fortune, putting these devices out of reach from students and electronic hobbyists

• Enxor is an open-source FPGA project allowing anyone to use or customize it
• Enxor can be used to monitor external signals or added as a submodule in a larger FPGA allowing internal signal testing
• No device specific modules allowing Enxor to run on any FPGA
• User interface works on Windows and Linux

Modular Engine Control System (Mecs), Christian Hogan

Electrical and Computer Engineering

There are two purposes of this project:

• Develop an open source platform for designing electronic engine control systems
• Demonstrate the platform by designing an electronic control system for a small gasoline powered engine

Demonstration Objectives:

• Modify a small gasoline engine to run on electronic control
• Write a VHDL library
• Construct all components and wiring in a durable fashion

Code Learning Laptop, Max Gesullo

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Learning basic coding skills on your own is difficult. You need to worry about the language, coding programs, and instructional content
• The above barriers to entry keep people from starting to learn coding who would otherwise enjoy it
• This project is designed to consolidate all the resources needed to learn basic coding concepts into one easy to use device

Plugsy Gardening System, Brandon Deakin, Andrew Williams, Daniel Beckett

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Planting and Landscaping Utility Gardening System for You (PLUGSY) is an automated garden system. The PLUGSY performs many gardening tasks, including planting, watering, and weeding the garden.

The purpose of the PLUGSY is to make gardening more accessible and enjoyable. This will help remove some of the barriers that people experience when first getting into gardening. These include barriers such as limited time, burnout, and lack of gardening knowledge. The PLUGSY helps solve all of these barriers by performing the most time consuming and tedious tasks for the user. In this way, the PLUGSY will be able to help …

Covid-19 And Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Responses To The Pandemic In The Inland Northwest, Jacob H. Rooksby

Law Faculty Publications

The novel coronavirus upended the world beginning in early spring of 2020. As travel ground to a halt, and governments issued stay-at-home orders, the impact on commerce was immediate and has proven to be lasting. Employees accustomed to working in offices and job sites were told to stay home. Certain industries received permission to have so-called “essential” personnel continue their labor in person, but for many employers the reality they faced was not so simple: learn to adapt to the new environment or succumb to the new environment. ...

Coming To Terms: Using Contract Theory To Understand The Detroit Water Shutoffs, Marissa Jackson Sow

Law Faculty Publications

After the City of Detroit underwent financial takeover and filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history in 2013, the city’s emergency manager encouraged mass water shutoffs as a way of making the city’s water utility a more attractive asset for sale—and for privatization—by ridding the water department of its association with bad debt. The sale never took place, but the water shutoff, too, became the largest ever in American history, with over 141,000 homes subjected to water disconnections over a period of over six years. The governor of the State of Michigan ordered that the shutoffs be temporarily suspended …

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UNF Course Catalogs

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Adolescent Obesity Case Study, Rachel Salvitti

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This handout shows some easy to digest information regarding adolescent obesity. It is targeted towards girls and suggests what they should or should not include in their daily habits to reduce their risk or continued development of obesity. The information presented is based off of MyPlate recommendations, as well as other studies of dietary interventions to improve health of adolescents suffering from or at risk of obesity.

Salad With Clams: Prey Choice Of An Intentionally Carnivorous Turtle, Kayleigh R. Erazmus, Luca Luiselli, Russell L. Burke

Biology Faculty Publications

Prey choice is the non-random foraging and consumption of prey species by their predators, and is therefore the basis for studies of topics as diverse as quantifying food webs, predator–prey relationships, and optimal-foraging models. Malaclemys terrapin (Diamond-back Terrapin) is a diet generalist with a large geographic distribution: the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Massachusetts to Texas. Individual terrapins have relatively small home ranges and feed primarily on local mollusc species. In feeding trials with 1 prey species and 2 prey species, wild-caught terrapins from New York readily consumed Mya arenaria (Soft-shelled Clam) and Geukensia demissa (Atlantic Ribbed Mussel), preferring …

Flight And Dietary Antioxidants Influence Antioxidant Expression And Activity In A Migratory Bird, Kristen J. Demoranville, Wales A. Carter, Barbara J. Pierce, Scott R. Mcwilliams

Biology Faculty Publications

Ecologically-relevant factors such as exercise and diet quality can directly influence how physiological systems work including those involved in maintaining oxidative balance; however, to our knowledge, no studies to date have focused on how such factors directly affect expression of key components of the endogenous antioxidant system (i.e., transcription factors, select antioxidant genes, and corresponding antioxidant enzymes) in several metabolically active tissues of a migratory songbird. We conducted a 3-factor experiment that tested the following hypotheses: (H1) Daily flying over several weeks increases the expression of transcription factors NRF2 and PPARs as well as endogenous antioxidant genes (i.e., CAT, SOD1, …

A Complex Interplay Between Balancing Selection And Introgression Maintains A Genus-Wide Alternative Life History Strategy, Kalle Tunstrom, Alyssa Woronik, Joseph J. Hanly, Pasi Rastas, Anton Chichvarkhin, Andrew D. Warren, Akito Kawahara, Sean D. Schoville, Vincent Ficarrotta, Adam H. Porter, Ward B. Watt, Arnaud Martin, Christopher W. Wheat

Biology Faculty Publications

Alternative life-history strategies (ALHS) are genetic polymorphisms generating phenotypes differing in life histories that generally arise due to metabolic resource allocation tradeoffs. Although ALHS are often be limited to a single sex or populations of a species, they can, in rare cases, be found among several species across a genus. In the butterfly genus Colias, at least a third of the species have a female limited ALHS called Alba. While many females develop brightly pigmented wings, Alba females reallocate nitrogen resources used in pigment synthesis to reproductive development, producing white-winged, more fecund females. Whether this ALHS evolved once or …

Gephyrin-Lacking Pv Synapses On Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons, Dika A. Kuljis, Kristina D. Micheva, Ajit Ray, Waja Wegner, Ryan Bowman, Daniel V. Madison, Katrin I. Willig, Alison L. Barth

Biology Faculty Publications

Gephyrin has long been thought of as a master regulator for inhibitory synapses, acting as a scaffold to organize γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptors (GABA_ARs) at the post-synaptic density. Accordingly, gephyrin immunostaining has been used as an indicator of inhibitory synapses; despite this, the pan-synaptic localization of gephyrin to specific classes of inhibitory synapses has not been demonstrated. Genetically encoded fibronectin intrabodies generated with mRNA display (FingRs) against gephyrin (Gephyrin.FingR) reliably label endogenous gephyrin, and can be tagged with fluorophores for comprehensive synaptic quantitation and monitoring. Here we investigated input- and target-specific localization of gephyrin at a defined …

Law's Ability To Further The "Menstrual Movement", Christopher A. Cotropia

Law Faculty Publications

"The current menstrual movement calls for overcoming the cultural stigma associated with menstruation, achieving “menstrual equity,” and ending “period poverty.” The stigma the movement seeks to address is that menstruation is seen as taboo, unclean, and impure. The movement’s aims are twofold: First, it wants to increase awareness of menstruation and remove discrimination against those who menstruate, thus achieving menstrual equity. Second, it intends to provide greater access to menstrual hygiene products (“MHPs”), particularly for homeless and lower income people, thus eliminating period poverty. To achieve these goals, the movement is advocating to legislatively eliminate the “tampon tax” and increase …

Single Machine Washer Dryer, Usu Department Of Electrical And Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Washer-Dryer Units take over 6 hours to completely clean a single load of laundry

• The drying cycle is what causes the long cycle time
• To dry the clothes, a dehumidifier is employed to remove water, little to no heat is used to help dry

This system

• Uses a modified drum to create more space inside the machine

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.

Zootap, Zane Winkler

Electrical and Computer Engineering

A day at the zoo can be stressful. ZooTap solves two of the biggest problems found at every zoo.

1. Customers not being able to find Zoo Animals
2. Zoo customers not staying at an exhibit for an extended period of time

With ZooTap, you and your kids will be able to interact with every animal physically and digitally with the use of a cell phone

ZooTap will result in adults and kids being more involved in a single exhibit at any zoo. Aiding them in finding animals and causing them to stay at an enclosure for a longer amount of time

Space Weather Probes (Swp), Jason Powell, Levi Norman, Connor Landeen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Problem:

Ionospheric plasma bubbles distort radio waves, causing disruptions with satellites to ground stations

Solution:

The objective of SWP is to understand the preconditions leading to plasma bubbles

• The is accomplished by measuring the electron density, 𝑛_𝑒, of the plasma environment in the Earth’s Ionosphere
• Previous Iterations of this project have been designed at the CSE (Most recently SPORT). This design attempts to improve upon those designs. 

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 …

The Effects Of Singing Vs. Speech On Joint Engagement In A Young Child With Phelan-Mcdermid Syndrome, Marllys Banks, Hannah Kinney, Bridget Valla, Maura Jones Moyle

Speech Pathology and Audiology Faculty Research and Publications

Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a rare genetic disorder typically caused by loss or disruption of the distal long arm of chromosome 22. Children with PMS exhibit severe to profound communication deficits, and the majority meet the criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). To date, no language or communication intervention studies focused on children with PMS exist in the literature despite a steady increase in diagnosed cases. Anecdotally, it has been reported that music facilitates learning and engagement in children with PMS. The purpose of this clinical case study is to investigate the effects of singing vs. speaking on joint engagement, …