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Device And Method For Accepting Central Bank Digital Currency(Cbdc) In Payment Networks, Pamela Ghosh, Vanesa Meyer, Wanyun Gu

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a device and method for accepting CBDC in payment networks. Initially an authorizing entity communicates with an interaction module to complete onboarding process. Further, the user also communicates with interaction module via the authorizing entity to perform the onboarding process. The interaction module transmits the onboard request to the blockchain network. Further the blockchain network provides a wallet identifier and the private key for the authorizing entity and the user. The interaction module stores the wallet identifier and the private key of the authoring entity and the user in a secure vault. Upon the onboarding, …

Exploring Perceptions Of Control Within Offender Cognition And Recidivism Paradigms, Anistasha H. Lightning, Danielle Polage

Student Published Works

Elements of perceived control are associated with recidivism in offender populations. We investigated the application of locus of control to the frequency of personal involvement with the law and to beliefs surrounding the likelihood of future contact with the legal system. We hypothesized that, as the number of sentencings or legal experiences increased, locus of control would externalize. We also predicted that increased legal involvement would lead to greater belief in the likelihood of future involvement. A statistically significant path model suggests that locus of control appears to be a predictor of increased criminality, as opposed to the other way …

Spartan Daily, November 30, 2022, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2022

Volume 159, Issue 41

Designing Vr Games To Improve Engagement With At-Home Physical Therapy, Andrada Pantelimon

ENGS 88 Honors Thesis (AB Students)

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions are the leading cause of disability worldwide. Every year, 50% of American adults over 18 years-old develop an MSK condition that requires physical therapy (PT). However, only about 35% of patients fully adhere to their plans of treatment. As the population ages and telehealth permeates the PT industry, there is a growing need as well as an opportunity to use new and emerging technologies to create immersive interfaces that increase motivation. This thesis explores the potential VR-based gameful experiences to improve engagement and follow-through with at-home physical therapy for ACL injury, a common acute MSK condition that …

Jewish Daily Life In Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350, Tzafrir Barzilay, Eyal Levinson, Elisheva Baumgarten

TEAMS Documents of Practice

Designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France, and England from the 11th to the mid-14th centuries, the volume consists of translations of primary sources written by or about medieval Jews. Each source is accompanied by an introduction that provides historical context. Through the sources, students can become familiar with the spaces that Jews frequented, their daily practices and rituals, and their thinking. The subject matter ranges from culinary preferences and even details of sexual lives, to garments, objects, and communal buildings. The documents testify to how Jews enacted …

The Psalms And The Christian, Ian J. Vaillancourt

Essays

No abstract provided.

Appley: Approximate Shapley Values For Model Explainability In Linear Time, Md Shafiul Alam

Doctor of Data Science and Analytics Dissertations

We have seen complex deep learning models outperforming human benchmarks in many areas (e.g. computer vision, natural language processing). Clever architectures and higher model complexity are two of the major drivers of such outstanding performances. Higher model complexity generally makes the decision-making process of a model opaque to human perception. But understanding the decision-making process is very important for many reasons including enhancing trust in the model's prediction, improving model robustness, gaining actionable insight from why a model made a particular prediction, and discovering new knowledge about a problem. Model explainability has been an active area of research for some …

Don Ascolese V. Shoemaker Construction Co

2022 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Troy Alexander

2022 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Usa V. Frederick Banks

2022 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Aaron Bressi V. Pennsylvania Board Of Probation And Parole

2022 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Nevel Heslop V. Attorney General United States

2022 Decisions

Agency

Brian Errington V. City Of Reading

2022 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. David Washington

2022 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Irvin Harper V. City Of Philadelphia

2022 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Mohammad Saleem V. Brungart

2022 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

The Knottiness Of Othering And The Cosmopolitanism Turn In Everyday Religion, Maria Arceño

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

This paper explores the knottiness of othering in Christian-Muslim relations in everyday religion in the urban marginal enclave of Baseco, Philippines. In examining the framing of the other from a sociological perspective, it is necessary to shift from a monolithic understanding of othering to a more nuanced approach that considers the entangled web of poverty, religious diversity, colonial legacies, power relations, the social nature of religion, and the sense of national loyalties that contributes to othering. Additionally, this study presents solidarity narratives as pockets of cosmopolitanism, draws lessons from them, and proposes a fuller cosmopolitan imagination that can mitigate the …

Brief For Petitioners, Gonzalez V. Google, 143 S.Ct. 1191 (2023) (No. 21-1333), Eric Schnapper, Robert J. Tolchin, Keith L. Altman

Court Briefs

QUESTION PRESENTED: Section 203(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an “interactive computer service” (such as YouTube, Google, Facebook and Twitter) for “publish[ ing] ... information provided by another” “information content provider” (such as someone who posts a video on YouTube or a statement on Facebook). This is the most recent of three court of appeals’ decisions regarding whether section 230(c)(1) immunizes an interactive computer service when it makes targeted recommendations of information provided by such another party. Five courts of appeals judges have concluded that section 230(c)(1) creates such immunity. Three court of appeals judges have rejected such immunity. …

"Why This Post Now?" : Dramaturging Politics And Social Media, Kennedy Kemmerer

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Political events have always been influenced by the media, but social media has provided a much stronger influence than the typical newspaper or radio. Users of social media accounts (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, etc.) have the opportunity to share whatever they want, to whoever they want, whenever they want. While social media has given immense opportunity for artists and creators alike, it has also given way for creators to participate in uninformed performance, whether intended or not, with their content. Are social media consumers considering whether content, specifically political content, is actually true or are they accepting it at face …

2022-11-30_Michiganoverview_Covidvaccinestats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Vaccine Data

The COVID Vaccine Dashboard page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/resources/covid-19-vaccine/covid-19-dashboard.

First-dose tracker above is for entire Michigan Population. Coverage maps below are for age 5+.

Previously reported numbers of administered vaccine doses may change as new data are received. A possible lag in reporting vaccine doses will result in increases in numbers previously reported.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Division of Immunization from data reported to the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR).

The dashboard contained the tabs Primary Series Doses Administered, Primary Series Doses by Vaccine, …

Gerald "Skip" Lawver, Oral History Interview, 2022, Andrew Schneider, Matt Jones

Oral Histories

In the Fall of 2022, Matt Jones’s Oral History Techniques class conducted a set of interviews documenting the stories behind the student unrest on Eastern Michigan University’s campus from 1966-1972. Gerald "Skip" Lawver was an EMU student who served as an intelligence officer in the US Army, an instructor with the EMU Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), a sergeant with the EMU police force. Skip was a sergeant with EMU during the events that took place near EMU's campus in May of 1970, working to keep things under control.

Effects Of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation On Adults With Post-Acute Covid-19 Syndrome, Isaac Min, Aaron Schurger

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Since its detection in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the viral disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, has had prominent effects on human health and mortality. Studies in previous infections of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV have found evidence of persistent symptoms in recovered patients, such as lethargy and shortness of breath. Similar residual symptoms have also been seen in recovered COVID-19 patients beyond four weeks of the initial onset of symptoms — collectively termed post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS). These symptoms include deficits in working memory. Preliminary studies done in the United States and Europe have shown a significant portion …

Contingent Payments In Procurement Interactions - Experimental Evidence, Matthew J. Walker, Jason Shachat, Lijia Wei

ESI Working Papers

A primary objective of creating competition among suppliers is the procurement of higher quality goods and services at lower prices. When procuring non-standard goods, it is often difficult to write a complete specification of desired quality in the contract. Thus, payments to suppliers cannot be perfectly conditioned on the quality provided. We propose a correlated contingent payment contract to mitigate the supplier moral hazard problem while retaining competitive supplier selection based on price. We treat the probability of implementing contingent payments as probabilistic. The selected supplier’s payment is, according to a fixed probability, either the amount of their bid or …

Wait, Is That Legal?: A Defense Of The Rights Of The Mentally Ill In The United States Prison System, Sophie Owen

Honors Theses

The ever-evolving question of what the legal requirements are regarding providing mental health care in prisons has been debated for decades. This thesis presents a meta-analysis that examines the Eighth Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause in regards to the mentally ill in the Criminal Justice System and applies it to present day prison systems in the United States. This research creates a clear picture of the inadequate care that is provided and the systemic issues that allow this level of mistreatment and lack of care to prevail. It examines the requirements for mental health care as set by the …

The Effects Of Deleting Lrb E3 Ligase Region 2 On Red Light Responses In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Sabina Liskey

Masters Theses

The ability of plants to absorb light through photoreceptors is essential for successful plant development. Phytochromes are important plant photoreceptors that detect and absorb red and far-red light and must function properly for plant survival. The Light Response BTB proteins (LRB) play an important role in a plant’s response to red light by degrading phytochrome B (PhyB) via the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS). Although there has been a successful investigation into understanding the function of the LRBs, the function of a few regions within LRB proteins remains unknown, including a portion located on the N-terminal end of the protein, termed …

The Impact Of Digital Media In Real Estate, Carley Dehnisch

Senior Honors Theses

For decades, the real estate industry has relied heavily on traditional marketing methods such as print advertising and cold calling. Although these traditional methods are still used within the industry today, the expansion of the internet over the past few decades has resulted in agents shifting away from older school marketing techniques to digital methods of marketing. This thesis will examine several digital methods of advertising such as social media marketing, email marketing campaigns, web design, and video production. In addition, this thesis will explain why these are the most effective marketing tools and necessary for real estate agents to …

Substrate Availability And Not Thermal Acclimation Controls Microbial Temperature Sensitivity Response To Long-Term Warming, Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta, Grace Pold, Hailey Erb, David Sebag, Eric Verrecchia, Trent Northen, Katherine Louie, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Christa Pennacchio, Melissa A. Knorr, Serita D. Frey, Jerry M. Melillo, Kristen M. Deangelis

Faculty Publications

Microbes are responsible for cycling carbon (C) through soils, and predicted changes in soil C stocks under climate change are highly sensitive to shifts in the mechanisms assumed to control the microbial physiological response to warming. Two mechanisms have been suggested to explain the long-term warming impact on microbial physiology: microbial thermal acclimation and changes in the quantity and quality of substrates available for microbial metabolism. Yet studies disentangling these two mechanisms are lacking. To resolve the drivers of changes in microbial physiology in response to long-term warming, we sampled soils from 13- and 28-year-old soil warming experiments in different …

November 30, 2022 (Vol. 107, No. 13), Daily Eastern News

Daily Eastern News: 2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Carrying Capacity Sangalaki Island Natural Tourism Park, Berau Regency, Joko Mijiarto, Eva Rachmawati

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Sangalaki Island Nature Tourism Park (NTP) is one of the tourist destinations in Derawan. As a conservation area, tourism development in Sangalaki Island NTP must pay attention to the carrying capacity of the area. The purpose of this research is to calculate the carrying capacity in the NTP area of Sangalaki Island. The research was conducted in October 2021 through literature studies, field observations, and interviews. The calculation of the carrying capacity is carried out with the concept of Physical Carrying Capacity (PCC). The PCC of the area in Sangalaki Island NTP is 259 people/day with details of beach tourism …

Reference Genome Coverage Based Approach For Whole Shotgun Metagenomic Analysis, Daniel Asare Acheampong

Theses and Dissertations

Advancement in metagenomic sequencing technologies have led to a tremendous improvement in public health through the identification of microbial organisms in their natural environment and the role they play. Developments in second and third generation sequencing technologies have contributed immensely to the increase in prokaryotic and eukaryotic reference genomes. Alignment of metagenomic reads to all these reference genomes in the quest to identify the microbial organism present in the sample could be computationally expensive and time consuming, thus the need for a more quick and accurate taxonomic classifiers that can aid in the fast identification of these organisms. Construction of …