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Drawing Lines To Address The Moral Problem Of Reproducing Immoral Biblical Texts, James Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

Some verses of Leviticus express norms that explicitly conflict with the legal and ethical teachings of contemporary Jewish and Christian denominations, and also with the laws of modern nations. Among them are texts mandating that readers treat some other people in ways now widely regarded as immoral, cruel, inhumane, and exploitative—texts that call for and / or have historically justified genocide, indiscriminate capital punishment, slavery, and the subjugation of women by men. National and international law today declares most of these behaviors illegal and subject to criminal prosecution. The moral problem for commentators and publishers is that, by publishing bibles …

The Daily Patterns Of Emergency Medical Events, Mary Elizabeth Helander, Margaret K. Formica, Dessa K. Bergen-Cico

Social Science - All Scholarship

This study examines population level daily patterns of time-stamped emergency medical service (EMS) dispatches to establish their situational predictability. Using visualization, sinusoidal regression, and statistical tests to compare empirical cumulative distributions, we analyzed 311,848,450 emergency medical call records from the U.S. National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) for years 2010 through 2022. The analysis revealed a robust daily pattern in the hourly distribution of distress calls across 33 major categories of medical emergency dispatch types. Sinusoidal regression coefficients for all types were statistically significant, mostly at the p < 0.0001 level. The coefficient of determination ($R^2$) ranged from 0.84 and 0.99 for all models, with most falling in the 0.94 to 0.99 range. The common sinusoidal pattern, peaking in mid-afternoon, demonstrates that all major categories of medical emergency dispatch types appear to be influenced by an underlying daily rhythm that is aligned with daylight hours and common sleep/wake cycles. A comparison of results with previous landmark studies revealed new and contrasting EMS patterns for several long-established peak occurrence hours--specifically for chest pain, heart problems, stroke, convulsions and seizures, and sudden cardiac arrest/death. Upon closer examination, we also found that heart attacks, diagnosed by paramedics in the field via 12-lead cardiac monitoring, followed the identified common daily pattern of a mid-afternoon peak, departing from prior generally accepted morning tendencies. Extended analysis revealed that the normative pattern prevailed across the NEMSIS data when re-organized to consider monthly, seasonal, daylight-savings vs civil time, and pre-/post- COVID-19 periods. The predictable daily EMS patterns provide impetus for more research that links daily variation with causal risk and protective factors. Our methods are straightforward and presented with detail to provide accessible and replicable implementation for researchers and practitioners.

Honors Thesis Iternship Experience, Chris Hippensteel

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Picture Yourself: Representative Picture Books For Multiracial Children, Emily Peterson

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Investigating In Utero Vitamin D Supplementation To Reduce Early Neurodevelopmental Phenotypes In Mouse Models Of Rett Syndrome, Abigail Johnson

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Fishing For Solutions: How Pre-Conceptional Fish Oil Supplementation In Obese Fathers May Mitigate Obesity-Related Inflammation And Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease In Their Children, Junhui Yang

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Norepinephrine-Induced Increases In Lactate Production By Hippocampal Astrocytes Are Stable During Aging, Monica Ciaffi

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Fitness Influencers Takeover Tiktok, Anna Jenkins

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Beef, Pork, Poultry, And Beyond: Exploring The Multi-Faceted Trend Of Veganism And Vegetarianism In The United States, Colette Van Olden

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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The Persistance Of Settler Colonialism In The Americas: The Political Thought Behind Colonization, Olivia Porter

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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What Makes Conversation Good? How Responsivity, Topics, And Insider Language Predict Feelings Of Connection, Emma M. Templeton

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

We spend our lives having conversations, and some inevitably go better than others. What happens in conversation that makes people feel connected? To explore this question, I recorded pairs of strangers and friends having unstructured conversations. In Chapter 1, I show that people who feel connected tend to respond quickly, creating short gaps between turns. However, long gaps are not necessarily bad. Although long gaps signal moments of disconnection and awkwardness for strangers, they mark moments of heightened connection for friends by providing space for enjoyment and mutual reflection. In Chapter 2, I examine how people start their conversations. Specifically, …

Zinc Oxide Based Nanomaterials And Device Designs - For Bioenergy Harvesting, Sensing And Water Purification, Congran Jin

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

Biomechanical energy harvested from the human body can power implantable electronics such as cardiac pacemakers, replacing conventional batteries and offering a lifelong energy solution. The electrical signals converted from biomechanical motions contain vital physiological information, making them suitable as a sensor to monitor one's health condition. Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is a versatile material with various intriguing properties, including piezoelectricity, photo-catalytic and piezo-catalytic properties. This thesis aims to exploit and enhance these properties of ZnO by rationally designing its nano- and micron-structures and employing them, along with other functional materials, in the development of novel biomechanical energy harvesting, water purification, and …

Microdebris Abundance, Distribution, And Ingestion By Sargassum-Associated Juvenile Fishes In The Gulf Of Mexico, Olivia L. Lestrade, Frank Hernandez

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Holopelagic Sargassum is a critical nursery habitat for the early life stages of many marine fishes, including several federally managed species in the United States and Caribbean. Sargassum is often aggregated along surface convergence features where microdebris (synthetic, semi—synthetic, and naturally—derived particles size) have also been found in relatively high concentrations. In this study, we collected microdebris from Sargassum and adjacent open water habitats (in 2018), and juvenile fishes from Sargassum (in 2017 and 2018) in the northern Gulf of Mexico to quantify habitat—specific microdebris concentrations and the degree to which Sargassum—associated juvenile fishes ingest microdebris. Microdebris concentrations within …

Measures Of Sleep Are Not Routinely Captured In Trials Assessing Treatment Outcomes In Knee Osteoarthritis - A Scoping Systematic Review And Call To Action, Jessica Feda, Tyler Miller, Jodi L. Young, Brett Neilson, Daniel I. Rhon

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Chemosensory System Of Tsetse Flies (Diptera: Glossinidae), M. N. Getahun, R. W. Macharia, S. G. Nyanjom, G. F. Obiero, S. Diallo, P. O. Mireji, D. Masiga

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tsetse flies are exclusively hematophagous and vectors of trypanosomes, which cause human and animal African trypanosomiasis. They are widely distributed in Africa, with 33 extant taxa and 22 species in three sub-genera. Despite a low reproductive rate, tsetse can maintain populations large enough to cause the restriction of the economic use of large areas of tropical Africa through the transmission of trypanosomiases. This success is largely due to their ability to navigate in their environments, using olfactory signals, which elicit critical behavioural phenotypes, such as attraction to hosts for blood meals, larviposition and resting sites, as well as avoidance of …

International Investment Agreements And Regulation Of Utilisation Of Water Resources In Africa, Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja

Indian Journal of International Economic Law

African constitutions and domestic water legislation provide for the human right to clean and safe drinking water. This right is also sourced from international human rights treaties and declarations to which African states are parties or signatories. Both municipal law and public international law impose the duties of protection and fulfilment of the right to safe drinking water on states. Domestic water laws and regulations require African states to regulate and manage the utilisation of water resources including by approving the grant of rights, concessions, or contracts in respect of the exploitation of water resources. These laws also require the …

Old, Nonagenarians, And Centenarians In Cilento, Italy And The Association Of Lifespan With The Level Of Some Physicochemical Elements In Tap Drinking Water., Silvana Mirella Aliberti, Richard H W Funk, Elena Ciaglia, Joseph S. Gonnella, Aldo Giudice, Carmine Vecchione, Annibale Alessandro Puca, Mario Capunzo

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Longevity, as a complex life-history trait, shares an ontogenetic relationship with other quantitative traits, such as epigenetic and environmental factors. Therefore, it is important to identify environmental factors that may modify the epigenome to establish healthy aging. This study explored the association between tap drinking water and longevity in Cilento, Italy, to understand whether trace elements in local drinking water may have an influence on old, nonagenarian, and centenarian people and promote their health and longevity. Data on population and water sources were collected through the National Demographic Statistics, the Cilento Municipal Archives, and the Cilento Integrated Water Service. Ordinary …

Bioactivity And Ph Of Nano-White Mta Versus Neomta Plus® And Mta Angelus® As Root Repair Materials: An In Vitro Study, Rana Elkhashab, Abeer Mahran, Mahmoud Mohamed Badr, Ashraf Abu-Seida

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Objective: This study compared the bioactivity and pH of Nano-white mineral trioxide aggregate (NWMTA), Neo-mineral trioxide aggregate plus (NeoMTA Plus), and Mineral trioxide aggregate angelus (MTA-A) as root repair materials.

Methods: A total of 60 discs made from the three materials (20 discs each) were prepared according to the manufacturer’s instructions. These discs were packed into plastic molds and allowed to set before testing. For bioactivity study, ten discs of each material were immersed in Hanks’ Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS) for 28 days, and analyzed with scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray (SEM/EDX). Ten discs of each …

Aloe Vera In Dentistry: Current Status And Future Prospects, Ashraf Abu-Seida, Heba Seif

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

This review declares the chemical composition, pharmacological actions, clinical applications, adverse reactions and future prospects of Aloe vera (AV) in the field of dentistry. Literature pertinent to Aloe vera in dental practice was explored in databases like PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar. The relevant literature was reviewed and critically appraised in this review. Aloe vera is a miracle plant that has been applied as herbal therapy for thousands of years due to its multiple health benefits. In dental practice, AV has different applications and it attracts the attention of researchers due to its natural origin, low cytotoxicity, and various biological …

Clean Vehicles Tax Credits Under The Us Inflation Reduction Act: Friend-Shoring Takes Centre Stage In Us Policy, J. Anthony Vanduzer

Indian Journal of International Economic Law

The international market has recently faced significant disruptions owing to major geo-political events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine War, resulting in unreliable and erratic global supply chains. In a bid to create and secure more sustainable supply networks, countries have adopted ‘friend-shoring’ policies, encouraging their enterprises to source supplies from friendly or allied nations. While the primary objective of these policies is to stabilize global supply chains, these initiatives also stem from a desire to reduce reliance on countries that pose a threat to the geopolitical order.

Although tailored as a market-based strategy, these friend- shoring policies, …

Warm Land Surface Temperatures And Eastern Asian Homo, Robert Patalano, Hong Yang

Biological and Biomedical Sciences Department Faculty Journal Articles

Climate change and hominin evolution are inextricably linked. Pleistocene climate variability, for example, is thought to have had major influences on hominin morphology, brain size, and diversity. However, clear cause-and-effect relationships between specific climatic events and major evolutionary occurrences are difficult to establish due to temporal and spatial gaps in paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental, and archaeological records. A new branched GDGT paleotemperature record from the Lantian Basin of Central China (Lu et al., 2022), a location known for the earliest hominin presence in East Asia, illustrates warm land surface temperatures over a two-million-year period between 2.6 and 0.6 Ma, a critical time …

Deep Ecology, Nature Spirits, And The Filipino Transpersonal Worldview, Carl Lorenz Cervantes

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Advance Publication Archive

Many Filipinos today still believe that the world is filled with invisible entities who can affect their lives in a tangible way. These beings usually reside in nature as the souls of ancestors or other mysterious spirits. This indigenous transpersonal worldview implies that the individual is part of a living world. The modern term “deep ecology” seems to be aligned with this worldview. This paper looks at the implications of the Filipino transpersonal worldview on policies related to the care for environment and biodiversity.

Leveraging Data, Models And Farming Innovation To Prevent, Prepare For And Manage Pest Incursions: Delivering A Pest Risk Service For Low-Income Countries, Bryony Taylor, Henri Edouard Zefack Tonnang, Tim Beale, William Holland, Mary Lucy Oronje, Elfatih Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, David Onyango, Cambria Finegold, Jessica Zhu, Stefania Pozzi, Sean T. Murphy

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Globally, pests (invertebrates, vertebrates, pathogens, weeds) can cause estimated annual losses of between 20% and 40%, but higher losses are disproportionately experienced by many low-income countries, as agriculture is the mainstay of the majority of the people and of national economies. Pests pose a major barrier to these countries’ ability to meet the aims of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG2, “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.” However, solutions, in the form of pest risk alert systems, coupled with major advances in technology, are now providing opportunities to overcome this barrier in …

The Failure Of Market Efficiency, William Magnuson

Faculty Scholarship

Recent years have witnessed the near total triumph of market efficiency as a regulatory goal. Policymakers regularly proclaim their devotion to ensuring efficient capital markets. Courts use market efficiency as a guiding light for crafting legal doctrine. And scholars have explored in great depth the mechanisms of market efficiency and the role of law in promoting it. There is strong evidence that, at least on some metrics, our capital markets are indeed more efficient than they have ever been. But the pursuit of efficiency has come at a cost. By focusing our attention narrowly on economic efficiency concerns—such as competition, …

Mycorrhizal Feedbacks Influence Global Forest Structure And Diversity, Camille S. Delavaux, Joseph A. Lamanna, Jonathan A. Myers, Richard P. Phillips

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

One mechanism proposed to explain high species diversity in tropical systems is strong negative conspecific density dependence (CDD), which reduces recruitment of juveniles in proximity to conspecific adult plants. Although evidence shows that plant-specific soil pathogens can drive negative CDD, trees also form key mutualisms with mycorrhizal fungi, which may counteract these effects. Across 43 large-scale forest plots worldwide, we tested whether ectomycorrhizal tree species exhibit weaker negative CDD than arbuscular mycorrhizal tree species. We further tested for conmycorrhizal density dependence (CMDD) to test for benefit from shared mutualists. We found that the strength of CDD varies systematically with mycorrhizal …

Taking Office Hours On The Road: How Pop-Up Help Desks Help Students, Mandee Baumer

Faculty Scholarship

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The Utility Of Thromboelastography In Acute Perioperative Trauma Resuscitation Of The Adult Coagulopathic Patient, Alexandra Sofia Keokosky

Nurse Anesthesia MSNA Student Capstones

One quarter of all patients admitted to level I trauma centers receive transfused blood, and approximately 25% of trauma transfusion recipients are diagnosed with coagulopathies during the resuscitation process (Hess et al., 2008; Kutcher & Cohen, 2021; Maegele et al., 2007). Such pathologies have been associated with negative clinical outcomes such as increased transfusion requirements, organ failure, sepsis, and death. (Barash et al., 2013; Cole et al., 2019; Hess et al., 2008; Sayce et al., 2020). Current laboratory standards of care to diagnose coagulopathies such as prothrombin time (PT), international normalized ratio (INR), and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) are …

Recurrence And Metastasis Of Breast Cancer After Volatile Inhalation Agents For Primary Cancer Resection, Elise Amico

Nurse Anesthesia MSNA Student Capstones

Surgical resection of a breast tumor is frequently a treatment option for cancer, and in some cases can be curative (Hurtado et al., 2021). Multiple factors increase the risk of metastasis or recurrence including the neuroendocrine stress response to surgery and manipulation of the tumor itself (Kim, 2018). Additional factors include depression of cell-mediated immunity including sympathetic nervous system (SNS) stimulation, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis stimulation, and pain (Hurtado et al., 2021). Research suggests that anesthetic selection, particularly total intravenous anesthesia versus volatile inhalation anesthesia (IA), has an impact on cancer recurrence and metastasis in breast cancer patients, however it remains …

Pop Spiritualism: The Experience Of Superfandom, Samuel Goldberg

CMC Senior Theses

This ethnography will examine superfans of musical artists, specifically Lady Gaga and BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan or “Beyond the Scene”), to explore the nature of superfandom and the evolution of the parasocial relationship. To unpack this, I explore the research questions: For superfans of musical artists, what meaning do they find in their fandom? What kinds of experiences and behaviors does it stimulate?

This paper determines superfandom to be self-proclaimed, but the title generally applies to fans who invest heavily (in time or financially) in a particular artist or group, engage with that artist in a routine way, and have strong …

Portrait Of An Insecure Young Man; An Exploration Of The Online Propagation Of Mewing, Jamie Cockburn

CMC Senior Theses

As social media becomes more ubiquitous in our cultural existence as humans it plays an increasingly large role in the formation and expression of identity. On many social media platforms, the way people look is emphasized, with more attractive people garnering the most attention. This results in the phenomenon of upward social comparison, which leads to the lowering of self-esteem. Social media and the internet also enable the spread of information and ideologies, which has resulted in the propagation of pessimistic and misogynistic world views in in communities that make up the manosphere. One popular topic on the manosphere is …