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Book Review Of Plain English For Lawyers, George Mader

Journal of Legal Education

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Exploring Heuristics And Best Practices For Redesigning Instructional Video, Kelly L. Murdock

Theses and Dissertations

Instructional video is a common staple for delivering content in online courses. However, if the included videos are not properly created, many students will skip the video and its content. Improving instructional video has been the topic of many research projects, and we can learn from these studies how to create effective and engaging instructional videos--this is the topic of my dissertation. The first paper is an extended literature review that examines which key instructional design principles are supported in the literature. This helps developers to know which principles to focus on when designing video. The second paper is a …

Methods For Engineers To Understand, Predict, And Influence The Social Impacts Of Engineered Products, Phillip Douglas Stevenson

Theses and Dissertations

Engineered products can impact the day-to-day life of their users and other stakeholders. These impacts are often referred to as the product's social impacts. Products have been known to impact the people who use them, design them, manufacture them, distribute them, and the communities where they exist. Currently, there are few methods that can help an engineer identify, quantify, predict, or improve a product's social impact. Some companies and organizations have tried to identify their impacts and, for example, set goals for achieving more sustainable business practices. However, engineers, in large part, do not have methods that can help improve …

Scaffolding Strategic Planning And Reflection Within Software Engineering Student Team, Murshida Rahman Mouree

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Strategic planning is essential for a student software engineering team to successfully accomplish a project. Often student software teams struggle with planning, because it is hard for novices to distribute work among teammates, identify tasks, prioritize development tasks, and know how much time they should invest in each task. In other words, students struggle to self-regulate their learning. Prior work in this area typically focuses on an individual, and does not promote iterative reflection and feedback on a collaboratively created plan. In this paper, we introduce Software Engineering Team Strategic Planning (SETS Planning), a novel strategic planning and reflection technique …

Gait Phase Estimation Of Unsupervised Outdoors Walking Using Imus And A Linear Regression Model, Ahmed Soliman, Guilherme A. Ribeiro, Andres Torres, Li-Fan Wu, Mo Rastgaar

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Human gait analysis and detection are critical for many applications, including wearable and rehabilitation robotic devices, reducing or tracking injury risk. The proposed work allows researchers to study the gait phase of human subjects in an unsupervised outdoor environment without the need for fixed thresholds and sensor-embedded insoles. We present an experimental protocol to label gait events based on patterns in human subjects from two body-worn inertial measurement units (IMUs). Gait patterns are developed using a force plate and a motion capture system. Upon defining the gait pattern, human subjects walk outdoors for forty minutes to train and test a …

Development Of Matlab Code For Rat Wheel Revolution Counter, Matthew Riak

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Independent Study

In recent semesters, the Lake Lab has worked to create wheel revolution counters which could be used to track the amount of revolutions run by rats after a surgically induced arm injury. The purpose of the revolution counters is to determine whether there is a relationship between the amount of activity and the level of healing.

How Do Digital Lives Affect Resident Mental Health In The Digital Era? Empirical Evidence Based On Chinese General Social Survey, Yan Chen, Mengyang Wei, Jaime Ortiz

International Business and Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

Having good mental health means we are better able to connect, function, cope and thrive. The widespread application of digital technology in daily life provides new ways and promising tools for residents to maintain their mental health. Given the importance of mental health for everyone, and the fact that mental health problems are prevalent worldwide, this study discusses how digital lives affects the mental health of residents. The results suggest that digital lives are significantly and positively associated with mental health. Mechanisms analysis identifies personal perceptions (self-rated physical exercise and subjective wellbeing) as the important paths for digital lives to …

Statistical Analysis Of Photovoltaic Voltage Outputs From Axial Laser Beam Alignments In Experimental Laser-Based Wireless Power Transmission, Haruka Kido

Electrical Engineering Student Publications

This paper demonstrates the statistical analysis of a receiver’s voltage outputs from laser beam alignment adjustments in a laser-based wireless power transmission’s experimental photovoltaic cell characterization test. The purpose of the experiment is to investigate how the voltage outputs of the photovoltaic cell vary in response to changes in the X-axis distance between the center of the transmitter’s laser beam and the center of the receiver’s vertical multi-junction photovoltaic cell, with constant laser power supply wattage at 𝟏. 𝟒 𝑾 and constant driver current at 𝟐. 𝟎𝟖𝑨. The experimental data collected from the LPT configuration is used in statistical analysis …

Evaluation Of Yttrium Stabilized Zirconium Thin Films With Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, Jeff Serfass

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Fuel Cells using solid oxides for the electrolyte material, or Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs), can operate at high temperatures and have many benefits when compared to other electrolyte material-based fuel cells. SOFCs can, however still have problems when operating at these high temperatures. (~1,000 degrees Celsius) At high temperatures, the SOFC electrolyte resistivity goes up making the ionic conductivity decrease and therefore a loss of performance. The inclusion of low level Yttria to Zirconium Oxide (the electrolyte material) has been known to help reduce the resistivity at high operating temperatures. In this study, a series of Yttria stabilized Zirconium …

Electrostatic Behavior Of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators With Discrete Electrodes, Adam Foster

Theses

Over the past couple of years, the field of soft robotics has seen tremendous expansion. As humans are looking towards a more collaborative, symbiotic relationship robots, actuators that are compliant and that do not employ a rigid frame are essential. One type of actuator that is currently being proposed is the Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA), which use Coulomb force of attraction between two electrodes to generate motion. DEAs are often referred to as artificial biological muscle because they share many of the properties of biological muscle (high energy density, compliance, natural damper). However, they do have some severe limitations that …

The Little Boy Who Became A Cow, Haemi Mimi Hong

Theses

The Little Boy Who Became a Cow is a retelling of an age-old Korean folktale. My adaptation tells the story of a stubbornly selfish boy who lacks respect for his mother. One morning his mother breaks a jar of milk after she is unable to open the lid. They argue after he overtly ignores his mother’s request for help cleaning up the mess. She forces him to head to the nearby farm to get some fresh milk where his selfish ways lead him to steal a magical mask that turns him into a cow. He, in his bovine form, is …

Senate Meeting, December 7, 2022, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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Application Of Organic Fertilizer And Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria To Increase The Growth And Yield Of Potatoes In Andisol, Agustina Erlinda Marpaung, Bina Karo, Susilawati Barus, Rina Christina Hutabarat, Rasiska Tarigan

Jurnal Kultivasi

Andisol has low phosphate (P) nutrient content due to high P fixation by allophane minerals, which affects crop production. The application of organic fertilizers and phosphate solubilizing bacteria can increase the availability of P in the soil in order to increase the production of potato plants. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of different types of organic fertilizer and phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) on potato production. The research was conducted from August to November 2020 in the installation of research and assessment of agricultural technology Berastagi, Karo Regency, with an altitude of ± 1,340 m above sea level and …

Genetic Diversity Fuels Gene Discovery For Tobacco And Alcohol Use, Gretchen R B Saunders, Charles C Gu, John P Rice, Nancy L Saccone, Laura J Bierut, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury

Random Forest Modeling Approach To Predict Streamflow Intermittence Of Tennessee Headwaters Using Flow Conditioned Parameter Grids, Berkay Tok

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Water quality impairment in small tributaries due to soil erosion and stream degradation of West Tennessee is an ongoing problem. A method to model streamflow permanence can assist stream restoration work by supplementing ground monitoring and providing better targeting of conservation attempts in the most vulnerable areas. This project applied a random forest model by incorporating climatic and landcover data as predictors to create streamflow permanence data for the West Tennessee tributaries (Lower Mississippi-Hatchie Hydrologic Unit, HUC 4-801). Specifically, the applicability of the Flow Conditioned Parameter Grids (FCPG) process is tested to study if the process improves prediction results compared …

3d Geology Of Lauderdale And Tipton Counties, Tennessee: A Geostatistical Approach, Valarie Joyner Harrison

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The surface and subsurface geology of Lauderdale and Tipton counties were mapped using seismic reflection line data, borehole data, water well data, previously mapped faults, and Lidar DEM imagery. Geologic structure contour maps, isopach maps, cross sections, and a 3D geologic model were made of Tipton and Lauderdale counties. These maps, cross sections, and 3D model include the tops of the Eocene upper Claiborne Group, Eocene Memphis Sand, Cretaceous strata, and Paleozoic strata. The post-Eocene near-surface geology was also mapped, which includes Pleistocene loess, Pliocene and Pleistocene terrace alluvium, and Holocene floodplain alluvium. The resulting geologic maps and cross sections …

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A Brief Review Of Dns, Root Servers, Vulnerabilities And Decentralization, Mallory Runyan

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Since the 1980’s and creation of the World Wide Web, Internet utilization is a common and arguably, necessary, part of daily life. The internet is young and still relatively new, but as of 2016, 3.4 billion people were online, and that number has since grown [1]. This is a significant number, but as such a common part of daily life, how elements of the internet or its infrastructure work is complex. The world would very likely be thrown into dark ages if DNS or any other significant aspect of the internet's infrastructure were to succumb to an attack. The Colonial …

Final 2022 Residential Metals Abatement Program (Rmap) Cherokee Park Soil Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp), Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Remedial Action Work Plan East Middle School, Environmental Resource Management (Erm)

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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Quantifying The Toxicological Effects Of The Organic Uv Filters Avobenzone And Homosalate On Acropora Cervicornis, Samantha F. Buckley

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Reports of the environmental effects of organic UV filters such as oxybenzone have led to the marketing of “reef-safe” sunscreen ingredients, including avobenzone and homosalate. Avobenzone provides broad-spectrum UV protection which blocks higher wavelength UV rays, the leading cause of aging and skin cancer. However, as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organic UV filters have similar structures to crude oil and estrogens, some of which have been labeled endocrine disrupters. Common in personal care products, UV filters enter marine ecosystems via wastewater effluent and swimmers. Significant stress and mortality have been observed in juvenile and some adult scleractinian corals after exposure …

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Clinical Sciences: News & Publications (2018-2023)

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How South Asian Activists Queer The Model Minority Myth: A Critical Oral History Project, Noorie Baig

Communication ETDs

The model minority myth (MMM) is predicated on stereotypical perceptions of Asian Americans as subservient high-achievers who comply with the ideologies of meritocracy, whiteness, and capitalism. However, South Asian American (SAA) activists and community organisers, the focus of this study, are working to confront and abolish racist, heterosexist, and other exclusionary injustices, policies, and practices. This dissertation seeks to understand the historical influences of the MMM, the challenges SAA activists and organisers face, and the communication strategies they use to negotiate the MMM through their activism. Oral history methods and critical thematic analysis are used to elicit and analyse personal …

Confederate Statues In University Opinion Newspaper Articles: An Analysis Of Themes And Attachment, Jamie Nicole Knopf

Dissertations and Theses

Many have asked for Confederate monuments' removal while others argue that they should remain or be recontextualized. Knopf analyzed themes found in Southern university student newspapers on the monument issue and how the statues related to community attachment. Using thematic analysis, Knopf identified six themes across the articles, and found that both removal and recontextualization arguments refer to the ideology behind the statues and the impacts this can have on students. Instances of attachment were used in both removal and recontextualization articles.

Genetic Diversity Fuels Gene Discovery For Tobacco And Alcohol Use, Gretchen R. B. Saunders, Xingyan Wang, Fang Chen, Seon-Kyeong Jang, Mengzhen Liu, Chen Wang, Shuang Gao, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala

School of Medicine Publications

Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury1,2,3,4. These substances are used across the globe, yet genome-wide association studies have focused largely on individuals of European ancestries5. Here we leveraged global genetic diversity across 3.4 million individuals from four major clines of global ancestry (approximately 21% non-European) to power the discovery and fine-mapping of genomic loci associated with tobacco and alcohol use, to inform function of these loci via ancestry-aware transcriptome-wide association …

Resilience Monitoring For Multi-Filter All-Source Navigation Framework With Assurance, Jonathon S. Gipson, Robert C. Leishman

Faculty Publications

The Autonomous and Resilient Management of All-source Sensors (ARMAS) framework monitors residual-space test statistics across unique sensor-exclusion banks of filters (known as subfilters) to provide a resilient, fault-resistant all-source navigation architecture with assurance. A critical assumption of this architecture, demonstrated in this paper, is fully overlapping state observability across all subfilters. All-source sensors, particularly those that only provide partial state information (altimeters, TDoA, AOB, etc.), do not intrinsically meet this requirement. This paper presents a novel method to monitor real-time overlapping position state observability and introduces an observability bank within the ARMAS framework, known as stable observability monitoring (SOM). SOM …

Real-Time Hybrid Testing Of A Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Using A Surrogate-Based Aerodynamic Emulator, Edward Ransley, Scott Brown, Emma Edwards, Tom Tosdevin, Kieran Monk, Alastair Reynolds, Deborah Greaves, Martyn Hann

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Abstract Physical modelling of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is challenging due to the complexities associated with simultaneous application of two different scaling laws, governing the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic loading on the structure. To avoid these issues, this paper presents a real-time hybrid testing strategy in which a feedback-loop, consisting of an on-board fan, and control algorithm, is utilised to emulate the aerodynamic forces acting on the FOWT system. Here, we apply this strategy to a 70th-scale IEA Wind 15MW reference wind turbine mounted on a version of the VolturnUS-S platform. Unlike other similar methods, which directly simulate the aerodynamic …

Targeting Tmem205 Mediated Drug Resistance In Ovarian Clear Cell Carcinoma Using Oncolytic Virus, Uksha Saini, Brentley Q Smith, Kalpana Deepa Priya Dorayappan, Ji Young Yoo, G Larry Maxwell, Ikuo Konishi, David E Cohn, Karuppaiyah Selvendiran

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) accounts for approximately 8-10% of epithelial ovarian cancers in the United States. Although it is rare, OCCC usually presents with treatment challenges and the overall prognosis is far worse than high grade serous ovarian cancer HGSOC. The objective of this study was to examine the therapeutic relevance of combining oncolytic virus with cisplatin for ovarian cancer clear cell carcinoma (OCCC).

RESULTS: We identified that TMEM205, a recently discovered transmembrane protein, contributes to chemoresistance in OCCC cells via the exosomal pathway. Mechanistically, TMEM205 undergoes ligand-independent constitutive endocytosis and co-localizes with Rab11 to contribute to the …

Heavy Metals In Four Marine Fish And Shrimp Species From A Subtropical Coastal Area: Accumulation And Consumer Health Risk Assessment, Mohammad Belal Hossain, Nurer Zaman Bhuiyan, Abul Kasem, Md Kamal Hossain, Salma Sultana, Jimmy Yu, Takaomi Arai

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Trace-element or heavy-metal pollution has emerged as a serious concern in terms of both environmental and human health issues. This study measured six trace and toxic heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Cr, Ni, Cu, and Zn) in four marine fish and shrimp species to assess their accumulation levels and evaluate the risks to human health. The mean concentrations of the metals in fish and shrimp species (Labeo bata, Sillaginopsis panijus, Platycepalus fuscus, and Penaeus monodon) followed the decreasing order of Zn (40.8 ± 9.7 μg/g) > Cu (17.8 ± 7.1 μg/g) > Pb (6.2 ± 1.8 μg/g) > Ni (0.4 ± 0.3 μg/g) > Cd …