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Safety, Regulatory And Environmental Issues Related To Breeding And International Trade Of Edible Insects In Africa, S. Niassy, E. R. Omuse, N. Roos, A. Halloran, J. Eilenberg, J. P. Egonyu, C. Tanga, F. Meutchieye, R. Mwangi, S. Subramanian, R. Musundire, P. O.Y. Nkunika, J. P. Anankware, J. Kinyuru, A. Yusuf, S. Ekesi

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Insect breeding or farming for food and feed is an emerging enterprise that can address the ever-growing demand for protein and curb high unemployment rates in Africa and beyond. However, for the sector to prosper, its value chain needs to be regulated to ensure sustainability and safety for consumers and the environment. Although a few African countries, such as Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, have promulgated standards on the use of insects as food and feed, greater efforts are needed in other countries, and relevant policies governing the sector need to be formulated. All over the globe, attention to the regulation …

Don't Abolish Employee Noncompete Agreements, Alan J. Meese

Faculty Publications

For over three centuries, Anglo-American courts have assessed employee noncompete agreements under a Rule of Reason. Despite long-standing precedent, some now advocate banning all such agreements. These advocates contend that employers use superior bargaining power to impose such "contracts of adhesion," preventing employees from selling their labor to the highest bidder and reducing wages. Abolitionists also contend that such agreements cannot produce cognizable benefits and that employers could achieve any benefits via less restrictive alternatives without limiting employee autonomy.

This Article critiques the Abolitionist position. Arguments for banning noncompete agreements echo hostile critiques of other nonstandard contracts during antitrust law's …

The Enhanced Effect Of A Twitter Intervention On Pell Grant Recipients 6-Year Stem Graduation Rates, Greg Heiberger, Ray Junco, Sumadhuri Pamarthi

Biology and Microbiology Faculty Publications and Datasets

This study evaluates the long-term impact of a randomized controlled study which utilized Twitter as an educational intervention to extend the course beyond the physical and time constraints of face-to-face instruction. Participants included 125 undergraduates from a mid-sized midwestern doctoral granting university in the United States. Outcomes previously published include increased engagement and grades for the intervention group (Twitter) compared to the control group. In the longitudinal study presented here, interaction effects were analyzed between GPA, ACT, gender, and socio-economic status with first-to second year retention rates, 6-year graduation rates and 6-year graduation rates in STEM fields.
A statistically significant …

Fundamental Rights And Fundamental Relationships: The Family In Comparative Constitutional Law, Paolo G. Carozza

Book Chapters

The chapter is part of the Proceedings of the 2022 Plenary Session
The Family as a Relational Good: the Challenge of Love
27-29 April 2022
Pierpaolo Donati (editor)
Acta 23, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City, 2023

University Of Richmond Magazine - Autumn 2022

University of Richmond Magazine

The University of Richmond's Alumni Magazine was first published as The Alumni Bulletin in 1936 and continues to this day as the University of Richmond Magazine.

Discovery & Wonder--The Harry F. Bruning Collection At Brigham Young University, Jack C. Stoneman, Aaron H. Skabelund

Books

No abstract provided.

Gvsu Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog, 2022-2023, Grand Valley State University

Course Catalogs, 1963 - Current

Grand Valley State University 2022-2023 undergraduate and graduate course catalog. Course catalogs are published annually to provide students with information and guidance for enrollment.

Tales From A Placeholder: A Relational Journey With Land, Place, People And Self, Kalle O. Fox

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The proposed thesis is a collection of place-based, long- and-short-form creative nonfiction essays. The places of interest are where the author spent different amounts of time in during her twenties, including Iceland, Miami and Seaside, Florida, Butte and Missoula, Montana, and a series of National Parks on the western side of the Continental Divide. This thesis is informed what cultural geographer Yi Fu Tuan coined as topophilia: the affective bond between people and place. “Place” and “sense of place,” while each having their own array of definitions in environmental scholarship, are considered interchangeable in the context of my work. A …

Boron Isotopes In Boninites Document Rapid Changes In Slab Inputs During Subduction Initiation, Hong-Yan Li, Xiang Li, Jeffrey G. Ryan, Chao Zhang, Yi-Gang Xu

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

How subduction-related magmatism starts at convergent plate margins is still poorly understood. Here we show that boron isotope variations in early-formed boninites from the Izu-Bonin arc, combined with radiogenic isotopes and elemental ratios document rapid (~0.5 to 1 Myr) changes in the sources and makeup of slab inputs as subduction begins. Heterogeneous hornblende-granulite facies melts from ocean crust gabbros ± basalts fluxed early melting to generate low silica boninites. Hydrous fluids from slab sediments and basalts later fluxed the low silica boninites mantle source to produce high silica boninites. Our results suggest that initially the uppermost parts of the slab …

The Legacy Of Hurricanes, Historic Land Cover, And Municipal Ordinances On Urban Tree Canopy In Florida (United States), Allyson B. Salisbury, Andrew K. Koeser, Richard J. Hauer, Deborah R. Hilbert, Amr H. Abd-Elrahman, Michael G. Andreu, Katie Britt, Shawn Landry, Mary G. Lusk, Jason W. Miesbauer, Hunter Thorn

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Urban Tree Canopy (UTC) greatly enhances the livability of cities by reducing urban heat buildup, mitigating stormwater runoff, and filtering airborne particulates, among other ecological services. These benefits, combined with the relative ease of measuring tree cover from aerial imagery, have led many cities to adopt management strategies based on UTC goals. In this study, we conducted canopy analyses for 300 cities in Florida to assess the impacts of development practices, urban forest ordinances, and hurricanes on tree cover. Within the cities sampled, UTC ranged from 5.9 to 68.7% with a median canopy coverage of 32.3% Our results indicate that …

Classification Of Seismic Activity At The Lazufre Volcanic System, Based On 2011 To 2012 Data, Heather Mcfarlin, Glenn Thompson, Stephen R. Mcnutt, Jochen Braunmiller, Michael E. West

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The Lazufre Volcanic System (LVS), on the border of northern Chile and Argentina, is an active complex of two volcanoes, Lastarria to the north and Cordón del Azufre to the south. The LVS is not regularly monitored with any scientific equipment despite being recognized as a top ten volcanic hazard in Argentina by the Observatorio Argentino de Vigilancia Volcánica of the Servicio Geológico y Minero Argentino. The system has shown unusual inflation signatures observed in InSAR but the level of seismic activity and its spatial and temporal distribution were unknown due to the lack of a permanent local seismic network. …

Northwest Semitic Epigraphy And Historicity In The Book Of Jeremiah, Matthew Tyler Bronson

Masters Theses

This thesis examines recent finds in Northwest Semitic epigraphy in an effort to determine their effectiveness for speaking to the historical validity of the prose sections of the Book of Jeremiah. In light of the book’s complex compositional issues, many models for understanding its development have been published over the last century; one foundational theory, expounded primarily by Robert P. Carroll, argues that material in Jeremiah apart from chapters 2–26 (Source A) fail to provide an accurate picture of the Historical Jeremiah. This claim is examined in light of Hebrew epigraphy. Chapter one introduces the issues involved in the study …

Phil 2103, Ethics, Syllabus, D. Robert Macdougall

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Health Equity/Health Disparity

Virginia Journal of Public Health

Addressing the Digital Health Divide in the Rural U.S.: Healthcare Providers' Perspectives on Telemedicine in Public Libraries

Pamela B. DeGuzman, Jennifer L. Garth, & Kamya Sanjay

Causes of Minority Health Disparities

Calvin Jones

Examining the [Social] Determinants of Health among Immigrant and Refugee Families: Lessons Learned from the Field

Abubakarr Jalloh

Racial Disparities in Routine Health Checkup and Adherence to Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines among women in the United States

Amarachukwu F. Orji, &Takashi Yamashita

Evaluation Of Standardized Psychological Screening For Pediatric Inpatients., Dana K. Albright Phd, Allison Gornik, Melissa Andersen, Kimberly Monroe, Kristin A. Kullgren

Health Services and Informatics Research

Objective: This study aimed to examine the efficacy of a psychological screening tool for hospitalized pediatric patients to identify those at high risk for adjustment difficulties and optimize referrals to pediatric behavioral health (BH) providers. Specifically, this study evaluated the PROMIS® Parent Proxy 25 to capture the psychosocial needs of the inpatient pediatric population admitted to the general medicine floor in a free standing children’s hospital. Methods: The PROMIS® Parent Proxy 25 was administered to parents of children ages 5 to 17 (N = 128). Chart review was used to group children into those who did or did not receive …

An Oral History Project: Shirley Knutson And Rural Ministry Initiative, Carly Bagley

Capstone Projects

This project examines oral history methods through a series of interviews with Shirley Knutson. These interviews focus on her life and her intentions for Rural Ministry Initiative, a Lutheran residency program for clergy interns. Shirley describes her experiences in rural communities as a child, student, teacher, wife, and mother. This project aims to help historians understand ethical practices and effective principals when conducting oral history projects while also exploring historical themes of domesticity, religion, and family relations from the perspective of a woman living in the Midwest United States during the mid- to late-20th century.

The Emma Tenayuca Project, Gwyn V. Hartung

Capstone Projects

This project is a multi-directional approach to increase recognition for labor activist and educator Emma Tenayuca, a lead organizer of the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio, Texas. By collaborating with community leaders in this project, I seek to inspire future generations of San Antonians by highlighting the struggles and successes Emma and her fellow strikers faced. The biggest part of the project is a call to honor Emma Tenayuca with a permanent monument. Other components of the project include a Twitter account dedicated to sharing information about Tenayuca, an ofrenda dedicated to Tenayuca displayed at Centro de Cultural …

Westside Sound Oral History Project, Norberto "Geremy" Landin

Capstone Projects

The West Side Sound Oral History Project is a collaborative effort that stemmed from the application for a seed grant from the UTSA Westside Community Partnerships Faculty Seed Grants. The grant program serves with the intention of projects that are “likely to catalyze and support meaningful community and academic engagement across research spectrum to improve bienestar of WCP [Westside Community Partnerships] residents.” The project collects oral history interviews with community members, musicians, DJs and music enthusiasts that were/are a part of this music genre scene. West Side Sound is a genre of music that was largely influenced by a combination …

A Content Analysis Of 100 Qualitative Health Research Articles To Examine Researcher-Participant Relationships And Implications For Data Sharing, Jessica Mozersky, Annie Friedrich, James Dubois

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Protocols Of Improvements For Pmma Denture Base Resin: An Overview, Nidal W. Elshereksi, Fathie A. Kundie, Andanastuti Muchtar, Che H. Azhari

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is a polymer that is expansively employed in denture base construction due to its low cost, aesthetics, lightweight, reparability, and processability. Nevertheless, this material is not ideal to fulfill the mechanical and physical characteristics of dental restorations. Despite the popularity of the thermal polymerization method, the main shortcoming is the prolonged curing period. Thus, correctly selecting a polymerization cycle and post-polymerization treatment is needed to achieve promising outcomes. In autoclave polymerization, pressure plays a crucial function in accelerating the initial polymerization as well as decreasing the pores and remaining monomer level, thereby improving the flexural strength. Besides, …

Effect Of Pore Modifiers On Physical And Mechanical Properties Of High-Performance Cement Mortar, Kisun Chunti, Sureerat Polsilapa, Parinya Chakartnarodome, Passakorn Sonprasarn, Wichit Prakaypan, Edward A. Laitila

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

Two different pore modifiers (PM), artificial pozzolan (AP) and modified aluminum salt (MA), were introduced into the composition of a High Performance Cement Mortar (HPCM). The chemical compositions of raw materials, ordinary Portland cement (OPC), sea sand, AP, and MA were identified by X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). The hydration kinetics resulting from each PM added to the HPCM was investigated by the relevance of hydration temperature. The mechanical properties such as compressive strength, dynamic modulus of rupture, and dynamic modulus of elasticity were measured as well as water absorption and density. Additionally, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) were …

Green Acidic Catalyst From Cellulose Extracted From Sugarcane Bagasse Through Pretreatment By Electron Beam Irradiation And Subsequent Sulfonation For Sugar Production, Thitirat Rattanawongwiboon, Prim Chanklinhorm, Threeraphat Chutimasakul, Tanagorn Kwamman, Wilasinee Kingkam, Rattapon Khamlue, Sarute Ummartyotin

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

The objective of this research is to prepare a green acidic catalyst from cellulose derived from sugarcane bagasse (SB). Initially, SB was pretreated by electron beam irradiation with a dose of 50 kGy to 200 kGy and subsequent acid hydrolysis to obtain cellulose. The cellulose derived from SB was carbonized at different temperatures for 4 h and then sulfonated with heating at 120°C under reflux. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to confirm the successful preparation of acidic catalyst by irradiation pretreatment and subsequent sulfonation. The cellulose derived from irradiated SB at the lowest dose …

Library Newsletter : Issue 3 - 2022, Office Of The University Librarian

Office of the University Librarian Reports

CONTENT:

- Message by Peter Gatiti Associate Vice Provost & University Librarian

- Reading for Children

- Gilgit-Biltistan School Digital Library

- When Writing Hurts

- Library and CHS Collaborate with WHO on SHRH

- What to Read?

- EBSCO Discovery Service

- AKU Athor's Day

Researching The Missouri-Mormon Experience (1831-1839) And Its War Of 1838, David Laughlin

ScholarsArchive Data

A bibliography of the Missouri-Mormon Experience (1831-1839) and its War of 1838, including primary sources, online sources, books, articles and non-published materials.

Researching Mormons In Texas, 1830 - 1930: An Annotated Bibliography, David Laughlin

ScholarsArchive Data

Researching Mormons in Texas, 1830 - 1930: An Annotated Bibliography.

Annotated bibliographical entries including books, newspapers, articles, essays, published and non-published materials dealing with Mormons in 19^th century Texas from 1830-1930.

Perception Of Narcissism In College Professors, Harry M. Wallace, A. Carrillo, Jack Kelley

Psychology Faculty Research

We conducted three studies to examine perceptions of grandiose narcissism in college professors. Narcissism might appear incompatible with the profession if professors are viewed fundamentally as helpers or as introverted bookworms. Then again, people might expect professors to display big egos congruent with the prestige of their profession and their privileged public platforms. Our research indicates that professors are generally not seen as highly narcissistic according to the criteria of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire, though they are viewed as more narcissistic than elementary school teachers. More professor narcissism was expected at colleges that …

Investigating Environmetal Justice Education In Rural, Title 1 Stem Classrooms, Luis Prado

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

ตัวแสดงในเศรษฐกิจการเมืองญี่ปุ่นกับการกำหนดแนวทางการพัฒนาการเชื่อมโยงในอนุภูมิภาคลุ่มแม่น้ำโขง : ทบทวนกรอบคิดสามเหลี่ยมเหล็ก, นรุตม์ เจริญศรี

Journal of Social Sciences

วัตถุประสงค์ของบทความนี้คือเพื่อศึกษาวิเคราะห์กรอบความคิดสามเหลี่ยมเหล็กที่ถูกมักใช้อธิบายพลวัตเศรษฐกิจการเมืองของญี่ปุ่น แต่ยังขาดการผนวกมาวิเคราะห์ร่วมกับกระบวนการกำหนดนโยบายต่างประเทศของญี่ปุ่น บทความนี้เลือกเอานโยบายต่างประเทศญี่ปุ่นที่มีต่อการพัฒนาอนุภูมิภาคลุ่มแม่น้ำโขงด้านการขนส่งระหว่างประเทศมาเป็นกรณีศึกษา เนื่องจากอนุภูมิภาคลุ่มแม่น้ำโขงเป็นพื้นที่ที่มีการลงทุนจากบริษัทเอกชนญี่ปุ่นอยู่จำนวนมาก หน่วยงานราชการและเอกชนของญี่ปุ่นได้แสดงความต้องการการพัฒนาการเชื่อมโยงในอนุภูมิภาคลุ่มแม่น้ำโขงไปยังกลไกและหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องหลายวิธีการ ดังนั้นการศึกษาการแสดงความต้องการ และความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างนักการเมืองพรรคเสรีนิยมประชาธิปไตย (LDP) หน่วยงานราชการ และหน่วยงานธุรกิจจะช่วยทบทวนกรอบความคิดสามเหลี่ยมเหล็กว่ายังมีความสามารถในการอธิบายพลวัตทางเศรษฐกิจการเมืองญี่ปุ่นได้อย่างไร และเป็นการผนวกเอาการวิเคราะห์สามเหลี่ยมเหล็กและการกำหนดนโยบายต่างประเทศญี่ปุ่นเข้าด้วยกัน เพื่อแสดงให้เห็นถึงความเป็นพหุนิยม (pluralism) ของการกำหนดนโยบายต่างประเทศญี่ปุ่น

Equipping Advanced Practice Providers: Interprofessional Pediatric Airway Management Course, Kenton M. Schrock

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Background: Developmental differences between pediatrics and adults requires intervention adjustments for airway management. Segregated intraprofessional training and limited provider exposure could result in poor collaboration and low-quality management. Patient outcomes depend on the proficient collaborative application of skill and knowledge. Purpose: The interprofessional pediatric airway management course paired unique airway considerations with interprofessional training strategies to equip providers to deliver safe airway management. Intervention: The course was delivered as a 3-hour training session. Participants completed team simulations and skill/concept stations. Pre- and post-intervention competency and confidence scores were measured and analyzed. Methods: Baseline confidence and competency scores in managing a …

Economics Of Markets: Neoclassical Theory, Experiments, And Theory Of Classical Price Discovery, Sabiou M. Inoua, Vernon L. Smith

ESI Publications

This book establishes that neoclassical economics based on the marginal utility calculus failed to derive a theory of consumer market price discovery consistent with the experimental market evidence. Such markets involve inherently discrete final-demand items bought for consumption and not subject to resale. Classical economists following Adam Smith articulated a rich narrative of price discovery theory consistent with experimental evidence based on operational concepts of discrete demand values (maximum willingness-to-pay), and symmetrically, supply costs (minimum willingness-to-accept). We develop and extend a mathematical model of classical market price formation. Chapter 1 & 2 describes this theme and chapter 3 connects it …