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Episode 23: Taylor Matthew Ashley, Christina Torres

Futures in Languages Transcripts

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Legal Reform To Enhance Global Text And Data Mining Research, Sean Flynn

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

Text and data mining (TDM) research involves the process of collecting vast amounts of digitized material and using software to analyze and extract information from such information. TDM is a crucial first step to addressing some of the world’s greatest scientific and societal challenges. But, as we show in this article, a patchwork of copyright laws across jurisdictions limits where and how TDM research can occur. We discuss how the World Intellectual Property Organization and legislatures around the world can promote harmonization of copyright exceptions for various research uses. Addressing research uses, including for TDM, in copyright reform can help …

Contributing Factors And Solutions For Inappropriate Use Of The Emergency Department, Lesia M. Kozych

Honors Capstones

Emergency departments are overwhelmed with the sheer quantity of patients, many of which are there for the non-emergent reasons. The purpose of this project is to identify factors that contribute to emergency department (ED) misuse, initiatives or programs that have been successful in decreasing ED misuse, and ED personnel’s opinions on contributing factors and potential solutions. A literature review followed by semi-structured interviews of ED personnel produced the necessary information. Common themes were drawn from participant responses in the interview portion. A major barrier to appropriate use of the emergency department is access to primary care. Others include: lack of …

Final Master's Portfolio, Carol V. Grinage

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This is the final master's portfolio for a Master's in English with an emphasis on professional writing and rhetoric.

After 100 Years: Still Making A Joyful Noise, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

UM Jazz Ensemble celebrating centennial anniversary with Dec. 8 concert in Natchez

After 100 Years: Still Making A Joyful Noise, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

UM Jazz Ensemble celebrating centennial anniversary with Dec. 8 concert in Natchez

Salary History And Employer Demand: Evidence From A Two-Sided Audit, Amanda Agan, Bo Cowgill, Laura K. Gee

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

We study how salary disclosures affect employer demand using a field experiment featuring hundreds of recruiters evaluating over 2,000 job applications. We randomize the presence of salary questions and the candidates’ disclosures for male and female applicants. Our findings suggest that extra dollars disclosed yield higher salary offers, willingness to pay, and perceptions of outside options by recruiters (all similarly for men and women). Recruiters make negative inferences about the quality and bargaining positions of non-disclosing candidates, though they penalize silent women less.

Good Newsletter December 2, 2022, Seattle University School Of Law Dean

GOOD NEWSletter

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Scamp Grouper, (Mycteroperca Phenax) Neurocranium, Liam L. Wilcox, David William Kerstetter

All Scans: Kerstetter Fisheries and Avian Ecology 3D Scan Series

Neurocranium from 5.40 cm; total length unknown. Scamp Grouper, (Mycteroperca phenax)

Specimen received from Kerstetter's lab

Promoting Sleep To Decrease Delirium, Stephanie Mayne

MSN Capstone Projects

Delirium is potent risk factor for complications, an increase length of stay, and mortality. Hospital acquired delirium is a prevalent and serious health condition that can occur in patients, especially the older adult population, when admitted to the hospital. It has the ability to be prevented if properly addressed and interventions are set in place to help reduce the occurrence of hospital acquired delirium. Many factors can contribute to the development of delirium, including a disruption of one’s circadian rhythm. Sleep is not always a high priority in the hospital, therefore there are little interventions and goals aimed at improving …

Regional Anesthesia In Outpatient Total Joint Arthroplasty, Laci Caesar

MSN Capstone Projects

Within the past five years, outpatient total joint arthroplasties have increased three-fold due to the change in insurance companies’ reimbursement plans. After continuous literature research collection, support for spinal anesthesia was higher than compared to general anesthesia (GA) for outpatient total joint arthroplasty procedures. Healthy patient who receives regional anesthesia showed decreased post-operative pain, increased rehabilitation, and, most of all, a decrease in facility stays (Macfarlane et al., 2009). This has allowed healthy patients who meet physician, anesthesia, and facility requirements to transition from hospitals to ambulatory surgery centers for total joint replacement procedures. With this new transition comes change …

Photo-Crosslinkable And Ultrastable Poly(1,4-Butadiene) Based Organogel With Record-High Reversible Elongation Upon Cooling And Contraction Upon Heating, Xiaming Feng, Guoqiang Li

Faculty Publications

Two-way shape memory polymers with reversible elongation upon cooling (EUC) and contraction upon heating (CUH) have emerged as promising smart materials for use in soft actuators. However, it remains challenging to develop organogels with as high as possible actuation strain. Here, novel photo-crosslinkable poly(1,4-butadiene) (PBD) based organogels with exceptional stability and high reversible EUC and CUH have been developed for the first time. The conventional photo-initiator 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropiophenone and plasticizer bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate were utilized to achieve photo-crosslinking ability and to serve as the organic free phase, respectively. Owing to the stability of the plasticizer, the PBD based organogels are pretty stable …

Wrack Lines Volume 22, Number 2, Fall-Winter 2022-2023, Nancy C. Balcom, Juliana Barrett, Judy Benson, Ben Crnic, Sto Len

Wrack Lines

With the theme, "Looking Ahead: People and Projects Shaping the Future," the Fall-Winter 2022-2023 leads with the first in what will be a series of articles about offshore wind development impacting Connecticut. That is followed by the inspiring story of how a dying forest was replanted for climate resilience. Next, a profile of longtime marine educator Tim Visel tells about his lasting impact on Connecticut schools and students. Lastly, the complex challenge of dealing with Contaminants of Emerging Concern is examined, with descriptions of how Sea Grant is involved and the particularly troublesome group of substances called PFAS.

Exploring Sleep Knowledge And Predictors Of Sleep Hygiene In College Students, Mirielle Erpelding

Honors College Theses

Sleep: something so crucial to successful daily functioning, yet also something so easily discarded in turn for something more stimulating. In college, there are late nights, early mornings, use of electronic devices, and the constant “always-on” mentality, all of which impacts student sleep hygiene. To define, the American Academy for Sleep Medicine (AASM) considers “sleep hygiene” as a pattern of healthy sleep behaviors that improve one’s ability to fall asleep, stay asleep, and awake more refreshed (2020). The current study has two goals: 1) assess knowledge of recommended sleep practices in the college population, and 2) identify predictors (among sleep …

A Robust Platform For Mobile Robotics Teaching And Developing Using Arduino’S Integrated Development Environment (Ide) For Programming The Arduino Mega 2560, Sajjad Alhassan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In light of the rapid pace at which development happens with modern technology, mobile robots play an important role in our daily lives. This is due to their great importance in facilitating the affairs of life in various economic, commercial, industrial, scientific, and many other fields. In this research and project, we have restructured the microcontroller and system for one of the mobile robots (CEENBOT) that was designed by the University of Nebraska and replaced it with an Arduino Mega 2560.

The purpose of using the Arduino Mega 2560 robot is to provide alternative programming for the CEENBOT platform to …

An Empirical Study On The Classification Of Python Language Features Using Eye-Tracking, Jigyasa Chauhan

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Python, currently one of the most popular programming languages, is an object-
oriented language that also provides language feature support for other programming
paradigms, such as functional and procedural. It is not currently understood how
support for multiple paradigms affects the ability of developers to comprehend that
code. Understanding the predominant paradigm in code, and how developers classify
the predominant paradigm, can benefit future research in program comprehension as
the paradigm may factor into how people comprehend that code. Other researchers
may want to look at how the paradigms in the code interact with various code smells.
To investigate how …

Pat Fry, Oral History Interview, 2022, Marian Feinberg, 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. Pat Fry was an EMU student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was a member of the Student Liberation Action Movement, wrote for underground newspaper The Second Coming, and Communist activist. Pat dedicated her life to fighting for equality and justice for all, continuing to be an advocate until she passed away in 2023.

Programming The Properties Of Branched Polymers Through Precision Architectures, Michael R. Dearman

LSU Master's Theses

The glass transition of branched polymers is determined by multiple structural parameters that dictate their inter- and intramolecular interactions, and ultimately, their molecular packing in the amorphous phase. Here we examined the impact of side chain length, backbone length, molecular weight composition, and topology on the glass transition behavior of bottlebrush polymers. Through examining precision bottlebrush polymer libraries (PBP, ĐSC = 1.0), we find the infinite molecular weight Tg is reached at a specific brush length after which the effect of the side-chain length dominates. Being a factor more dominant than the backbone, side-chain length affects the Tg of bottlebrush …

“Midnights” Album Review, Ava Montalbano

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Decisions Taken By The Governing Council Of The Ecb (In Addition To Decisions Setting Interest Rates), European Central Bank (Ecb)

Documents

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Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Washington County, Tennessee For The Year Ended June 30, 2022, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Tennessee County Audit Reports

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Suicide Among South Asians In The United States: A Growing Public Health Problem, Aruna Jha, Manik Ahuja, Rajvi J. Wani

ETSU Faculty Works

This research study quantifies and describes suicide among South Asian Americans (SAAs), an emerging population that are underrepresented group in suicide research. The purpose of this study was to examine key characteristics of suicide deaths among SAAs. Data were employed from DuPage County, IL, a county with a large SAA population. Following federal recommendations for disaggregating Asian American data at a granular level, four SAA researchers used name recognition to identify all SAA cases classified as suicide in the DuPage County coroner’s database from 2001 to 2017 (N = 38). Coroner’s reports were analyzed for contextual details and correlating …

Mgrre_Thinsections_Mgrre-131_1, Mgrre

Thin Sections

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Pollination Ecology Of Island Endemic Plants: A Case Study On The California Channel Islands, C. Sheena Sidhu, Giselle E. Lozano, Michelle C. Miner, Emily Howe, Erin E. Wilson-Rankin

Western North American Naturalist

Understanding the pollination requirements of threatened species is critical for the success of long-term conservation strategies. In a series of greenhouse experiments, we assessed the effects of different pollination treatments, including autogamy, facilitated autogamy, and cross-pollination on fruit and seed set for 2 generations of a rare island endemic plant. Santa Cruz Island rockcress, Sibara filifolia (Brassicaceae), is a rare, endangered annual herb that is endemic to the California Channel Islands. While efforts are underway to monitor and conserve this rare plant species, little is known about its pollination biology. We quantified the index of self-compatibility and multiplicative fitness. We …

2022 December, 2; Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, December 2, 2022

Residency Requirement for Concentrations

2022 December, 2; Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes; 2022 December, 2

Residency Requirement for Concentrations

2022 December, 2; Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes; 2022 December, 2

Residency Requirement for Concentrations

Kyriakos Studio December Recital, Arkansas State University Department Of Music

Performance Programs

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Fascism In The Age Of The Internet: Stormfront.Org And The Capitol Insurrection, Grace Ruth Blackard

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

This thesis investigates the relationship between online white supremacist discourse and the January 6, 2021, Capitol Insurrection by examining user behavior on Stormfront.org, one of the oldest and most influential white nationalist forums on the internet. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study analyzed posts from Stormfront’s “Politics and Continuing Crises” and “Lounge” boards during periods before and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Drawing on threat assessment literature, the research evaluated the presence of warning behaviors, including leakage, fixation, and identification, while also assessing user interactions, self-presentation, and major discussion themes. Quantitative findings revealed that political discussion boards contained significantly …

Racial Identity And Self-Esteem In Southern Colleges: A Comparison Between Black And White Female Students, Leila-Aolani Declouet-Grant

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

This thesis examines the relationship between racial identity development and self-esteem among Black and White female college students in the southern United States, with particular attention to the influence of different institutional environments. Through a review of scholarly literature and research conducted at Spelman College, Florida A&M University (FAMU), and Florida State University (FSU), the study explores how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), predominantly White institutions (PWIs), and single-gender colleges shape students’ racial identity and self-perceptions. Drawing on Cross’s Nigrescence Theory and theories of self-esteem development, the research finds that Black female students attending HBCUs tend to demonstrate stronger …