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“A Document Of Independent Force”: Towards A Robust Ohio Constitutionalism, Nathaniel M. Fouch

University of Dayton Law Review

On August 11, 1993, the Ohio Supreme Court handed down its decision in Arnold v. Cleveland. The Court held that the Ohio Constitution confers a fundamental individual right to bear arms—nearly 15 years before the United States Supreme Court enunciated a similar right guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Perhaps even more consequentially, the Arnold court declared that “[t]he Ohio Constitution is a document of independent force.” This assertion about the fundamental nature of the state constitution, and the willingness of the Court to engage with and interpret the document on its own terms, breathed new life into Ohio’s otherwise …

Lindenwood Digest, December 6, 2023, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Re: Silver Bow Creek Butte Area Npl Site 3rd Quarter 2023 Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Interim Site-Wide Surface Water Monitoring Data Report. Consent Decree- Civil Action No. Cv 89- 039-Bu-She, Josh Bryson

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Emotion Knowledge, Its Applications, And Their Associations With African American Children's Social Relationships With Teachers And Peers In Kindergarten And First Grade, Brielle Emily Petit

Dissertations and Theses

Close and high-quality relationships with teachers and peers are a significant, positive predictor of young children's academic and social-emotional skills, whereas early conflictual relationships can pose various short- and long-term socio-emotional and academic risks. Evidence also suggests that emotion knowledge, or the ways children identify, recognize, and apply emotional labels, are a crucial factor in children's early development including overcoming social-emotional challenges and fostering high-quality interpersonal relationships. Studies examining social relationships and emotion knowledge in early childhood, however, often reveal worrisome differences in between-group comparison designs. Particularly, minoritized children, and most often Black and African American, are associated with poorer …

The Association Between Cardiovascular Health And Cognition In Adults With Down Syndrome., Lauren Frank, Brian Helsel, Danica Dodd, Amy E. Bodde, Jessica C. Danon, Joseph R. Sherman, Daniel Forsha, Amanda Szabo-Reed, Richard A. Washburn, Joseph E. Donnelly, Lauren T. Ptomey

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

INTRODUCTION: Evidence in the general population suggests that predictors of cardiovascular health such as moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), cardiorespiratory fitness, and systolic blood pressure are associated with cognitive function. Studies supporting these associations in adults with Down syndrome (DS) are limited. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between systolic blood pressure, cardiorespiratory fitness, and MVPA on cognition in adults with DS.

METHODS: This is a cross-sectional analysis using baseline data from a trial in adults with DS. Participants attended a laboratory visit where resting blood pressure, cardiorespiratory fitness (VO₂ Peak), and cognitive function …

Effects Of A Preventive Mental Health Curriculum Embedded Into A Scholarly Gaming Course On Adolescent Self-Esteem: Prospective Matched Pairs Experiment., Christopher Jenson, Sharon Fitzgerald Wolff, Libby Milkovich

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Positive self-esteem predicts happiness and well-being and serves as a protective factor for favorable mental health. Scholarly gaming within the school setting may serve as a channel to deliver a mental health curriculum designed to improve self-esteem.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate the impact of a scholarly gaming curriculum with and without an embedded preventive mental health curriculum, Mental Health Moments (MHM), on adolescents' self-esteem.

METHODS: The scholarly gaming curriculum and MHM were developed by 3 educators and a school-based health intervention expert. The scholarly gaming curriculum aligned with academic guidelines from the International Society for Technology Education, …

The Relevance Of Electronic Services (E-Services) In Cameroon’S Ministry Of Finance, Junior Nwanja

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Health Care Providers’ Experiences With Integrated Care Services Needed To Treat Patients With Type 3 Compared To Type 2 Diabetes, Sharon Hope Jaycox

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Predicting Volunteerism Through Factors Of Emotional Intelligence, Self-Efficacy, And Education Level, Dan Clark

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Oral History With Laila Aziz, Laila Aziz, Tj Joseph

Ethnic Studies Oral Histories

No abstract provided.

Robotic-Assisted Navigation For Stereotactic Neurosurgery: A Cadaveric Investigation Of Accuracy, Time, And Radiation, William Anderson, Francisco Ponce, Michael Kinsman, Sepehr Sani, Brian Hwang, Diana Ghinda, Michael Kogan, Jonathan M Mahoney, Dhara Amin, Margaret Van Horn, Joshua Mcguckin, Dominic Razo-Castaneda, Brandon Bucklen

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite frequent use, stereotactic head frames require manual coordinate calculations and manual frame settings that are associated with human error. This study examines freestanding robot-assisted navigation (RAN) as a means to reduce the drawbacks of traditional cranial stereotaxy and improve targeting accuracy.

METHODS: Seven cadaveric human torsos with heads were tested with 8 anatomic coordinates selected for lead placement mirrored in each hemisphere. Right and left hemispheres of the brain were randomly assigned to either the traditional stereotactic arc-based (ARC) group or the RAN group. Both target accuracy and trajectory accuracy were measured. Procedural time and the …

Demographic History Shapes North American Gray Wolf Genomic Diversity And Informs Species' Conservation, Bridgett M. Vonholdt, Daniel R. Stahler, Kristin Brzeski, Marco Musiani, Rolf O. Peterson, Michael Phillips, John Stephenson, Kent Laudon, Erin Meredith, John Vucetich, Jennifer A. Leonard, Robert K. Wayne

Michigan Tech Publications

Effective population size estimates are critical information needed for evolutionary predictions and conservation decisions. This is particularly true for species with social factors that restrict access to breeding or experience repeated fluctuations in population size across generations. We investigated the genomic estimates of effective population size along with diversity, subdivision, and inbreeding from 162,109 minimally filtered and 81,595 statistically neutral and unlinked SNPs genotyped in 437 grey wolf samples from North America collected between 1986 and 2021. We found genetic structure across North America, represented by three distinct demographic histories of western, central, and eastern regions of the continent. Further, …

Delayed Giant Pseudoaneurysm With Left-To-Right Shunt Following Postinfarct Ventricular Septal Perforation Repair, Yojiro Machii, Makoto Taoka, Yuki Hayashi, Atsushi Harada, Keita Kamata, Masashi Tanaka

The Texas Heart Institute Journal

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm with a left-to-right shunt is extremely rare, requiring surgery if symptomatic; however, surgery has a high risk. Here, the case of a 77-year-old man with heart failure symptoms is reported, in which he develops a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm 16 months after ventricular septal perforation repair as a result of acute myocardial infarction, with mild shunt blood flow from the pseudoaneurysm to the right ventricle. Intraoperative findings showed a free wall rupture along the area where the patch was secured during the initial surgery. The patient was discharged on postoperative day 13, and postoperative examination revealed no …

Fishing And Fear Effects Interact To Shape Herbivory On Coral Reefs, Bethany M. Tilton

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Predation influences animal behavior and shapes ecological structure and function through lethal effects and fear effects. On coral reefs, fear effects can alter the distribution and intensity of herbivory by herbivorous reef fishes. This includes the browsing functional group, which potentially reverses macroalgal phase shifts and promotes reef recovery. Herbivory by multiple functional groups may increase on coral reefs through the use of NTZs (no-take zones) but few studies have examined the extent to which small-scale NTZs (< 0.5 km²) influence fear effects and perceived predator presence on reefs. This study aimed to determine whether fear effects on browsers on …

A Rapid Site Selection Assessment As An Indicator Of Stony Coral Microfragment Outplant Success, John J. Alfirevich

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Microfragmentation of massive stony coral species is a technique being utilized to propagate corals asexually to help restore coral reefs. Microfragmentation consists of cutting corals into 3 cm diameter or less fragments, which boosts growth rates. However, in some locations the size of microfragments make them vulnerable to parrotfish predation and benthic overgrowth, reducing survival. As such, a method to identify key site characteristics which promotes microfragment outplant success, particularly one that can be performed quickly across multiple areas is needed. A rapid site assessment conducted prior to microfragment outplanting was performed at 12 randomly selected sites within the Kristin …

Reclaiming Indigenous History: Pyroepistomology And Social Justice, Paulette Steeves

LAII Events

The Indigenous past of the Americas has been fabricated to fit into neoliberal time frames of imagined “New Worlds". The past remains a tool of dis-empowerment created by American archaeologists to keep Indigenous civilizations as “infantile” on a global scale. In the Americas, the deep Indigenous past prior to 12,000 years before the present has been aggressively denied for over a century. Anthropologists’ denial of the deep Indigenous past of the Americas, has cleaved Indigenous people’s links to their homeland and created them as recent immigrants to the Americas, on a global scale of human history. Yet, Indigenous oral traditions …

Scaffolded Simulation In Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Education, Lori Bobo, Stacy Mikel, Yolanda Chandler, Hungwei Tseng

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of using scaffolded clinical simulations on nursing students’ confidence in clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, and critical thinking skills. Next, we also attempted to gain insights into students’ perceptions of the benefits of scaffolded clinical simulations.

Method: We used a mixed-methods research design to investigate the impacts of using scaffolded clinical simulations on 133 second-semester baccalaureate nursing students’ confidence in clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, and critical thinking skills.

Results: Findings from this study indicate that students who perceived the benefits of scaffolded simulation activities (i.e., peer observations, debriefings, and self-reflections) …

Benefits Of Sharing Neurophysiology Data From The Brain Initiative Research Opportunities In Humans Consortium, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Kathryn Maxson Jones, Mary A Majumder, Michael J Kahana, Ueli Rutishauser, Ziv M Williams, Sydney S Cash, Angelique C Paulk, Jie Zheng, Michael S Beauchamp, Jennifer L Collinger, Nader Pouratian, Amy L Mcguire, Sameer A Sheth

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Sharing human brain data can yield scientific benefits, but because of various disincentives, only a fraction of these data is currently shared. We profile three successful data-sharing experiences from the NIH BRAIN Initiative Research Opportunities in Humans (ROH) Consortium and demonstrate benefits to data producers and to users.

Docking For Ep4r Antagonists Active Against Inflammatory Pain, Stefan Gahbauer, Tao Che, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The lipid prostaglandin E

Design And Structural Validation Of Peptide-Drug Conjugate Ligands Of The Kappa-Opioid Receptor, Edin Muratspahić, Jianming Han, Balazs R Varga, Kevin Appourchaux, Susruta Majumdar, Tao Che, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Despite the increasing number of GPCR structures and recent advances in peptide design, the development of efficient technologies allowing rational design of high-affinity peptide ligands for single GPCRs remains an unmet challenge. Here, we develop a computational approach for designing conjugates of lariat-shaped macrocyclized peptides and a small molecule opioid ligand. We demonstrate its feasibility by discovering chemical scaffolds for the kappa-opioid receptor (KOR) with desired pharmacological activities. The designed De Novo Cyclic Peptide (DNCP)-β-naloxamine (NalA) exhibit in vitro potent mixed KOR agonism/mu-opioid receptor (MOR) antagonism, nanomolar binding affinity, selectivity, and efficacy bias at KOR. Proof-of-concept in vivo efficacy studies …

Producing And Applying Runtime Adjustments To Semantic Textures, Omar Galal El Sheikh

Defensive Publications Series

Semantic textures are labels associated with objects or regions in a scene, map, or video, and they enable the accurate interpretation of geospatial content. Auto-generated semantic textures frequently include mislabeled regions, e.g., water labeled as ground (and vice-versa). This disclosure describes techniques to enable the touching-up (correcting of semantic labels) of two- or three-dimensional maps, scenes, or videos such that the touch-ups precisely correspond to real-world locations. Touch-up edits can be executed by painting over existing semantic textures using lat-long-centered, touch-up texture tiles as paint brushes within a photo-editing software. The parameters of the touch-up tile, e.g., its resolution, its …

Reconstructing A Machine Learning Model Based On Thresholded Model Differences, Nam Nguyen, Jeffrey Hui, Aroma Mahendru

Defensive Publications Series

A machine learning (ML) model often comprises many floating point numbers (model weights) and the operations applied on them (the computation graph). If a model is derived from another, the derived model often has similar weights and is of the same size. It is a waste of storage to store copies of the similar weights and computation graphs for two related models. This document describes techniques to obtain a sparse representation, referred to herein as thresholded model diff, that can be applied to a base model to reconstruct a version of a derived model. Differences between weights of the base …

Human-Robot Collaboration For Smart Manufacturing: A Sustainable Solution To The Future Of Manufacturing, Weitian Wang

Sustainability Seminar Series

Robotics technology has served humans in numerous application fields, especially product assembly in manufacturing contexts. Global competitors and technological advancements result in great challenges and much more complicated working environments for the manufacturing. Human-robot collaboration (HRC) has numerous vital and outstanding advantages to substantially lessen the amount of fixed production costs in comparison to variable costs. HRC provides a great solution to the complex hybrid manufacturing tasks. The cooperation of humans and robots in collaborative tasks can take advantage of the differing strengths from both sides. In this talk, I will give a broad introduction of robotics research and education …

Métissage Methodology For Qualitative Research, Bryanna Scott

Journal of Indigenous Research

There is a lack of Métis-specific research methodologies that can be drawn upon in academia by Métis scholars and emerging academics like master and Ph.D. students. This paper outlines an exploratory research methodology used by a Ph.D. student in educational studies for a qualitative study on reconciliation through Métissage in higher education. The study was designed to build a conceptual framework[1] that answers the following question: “How have university courses and learning experiences impacted Métis peoples’ understandings of their cultural identities, the role of Métis-specific Knowledge in higher education curriculum and policies, and Métis perspectives on reconciliation in Canadian …

Christ Hospital And Medical Center History: 1906-1996, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Oak Lawn, IL: This 1906-1996 overview of Christ Medical Center history includes milestones, patient numbers, and budget statistics from the first 100 years of CHMC history.

Interesting pieces include:

• Water fights among student nurses were a tradition at Chicago's Evangelical Deaconess Nursing School in the early 1900's
• In 1911 income was $3,553,51 compared to 1923 at $133,141.15
• In 1933 nurses received $25 per week for 6.5 days of work
• The Oak Lawn land was purchased in 1955. The property was formerly a drive-in.
• In 1972 the original Evangelical Deaconess Hospital was sold to the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church.
• School of …

Analysis Of Pharmaceutical Residues In Wastewater From A Ain, United Arab Emirates Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry And Circular Dichroism:Potential Hazardous Emergent Contaminants, Maya Iyad Berakdar

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Although water is the second essential substance to life after air, clean water resources in many regions of the world have become limited because of climate change, establishing rivers’ dams and contaminations with hazardous life-threatening chemicals. Pharmaceutical residues in aquatic environments have been recognized as emerging contaminants causing adverse ecological and human health risks. Hundreds of pharmaceutical compounds and their metabolites were found in surface, underground, drinking and sewage waters in many countries. In United Arab Emirates, millions of drugs' dosages are annually used for human, poultry, and veterinary treatments. Drugs execrated as unchanged, metabolites or excesses can find their …

Maximising Captured Power And Battery Management For Heaving Wave Energy, Omsalama Mubarak Mohamed

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Sea waves are considered the most potent energy carriers among all sources of renewable energy. This research work is concerned with developing technologies to enhance performance and improve power capturing and conversion capabilities of a single heaving wave energy converter (WEC) actuated by a PMLG (Permanent Magnet Linear Generator). The objective of this dissertation is achieved by three techniques. The first one considers maximizing conversion between the mechanical and electrical powers. It is implemented by designing intrinsic resistance using a rapid procedure involving the mechanical and electrical models of the converter and considering its operating constraints. A robust PID (proportional …

The Imposter Among Us: How Imposter Syndrome Is Fueled By Diversity Discourses, Tina Liu

Urban Library Journal

In this paper, first presented at the 2023 LACUNY Institute, the author discusses definitions of imposter syndrome and how imposter syndrome fits within the diversity model. The diversity model, as used in this paper, emerges from an oversimplified framing of racial inequity as a problem that is solved by simply hiring diverse bodies to appear inclusive. In conjunction with the proliferation of imposter syndrome in post-secondary institutions, the ongoing phenomenon of imposter syndrome among librarians and academics reveals an underlying systemic problem rather than individual shortcomings. Workplace discomfort in post-secondary institutions is too easily brushed off as imposter syndrome, without …

Classical Humanism: Reading Mesopotamian, Ancient And Judeo-Christian Myths To Make Psychology A Discipline Of Conversation, Bilal Issa

Duquesne Studies in Phenomenology

No abstract provided.

A Maple Leaf, Akihiro Yoshida

Duquesne Studies in Phenomenology

No abstract provided.