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R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: The Court's Forgotten Virtue, Camille Pollutro

Cleveland State Law Review

This Article recommends a shift in constitutional interpretation that requires the existence of respect for the class at issue when a fundamental right is being considered under the narrow, historical deeply rooted test of the Fourteenth Amendment. By focusing on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, this Article highlights that the class at issue—women—are having their fundamental rights decided for them by the legal sources of 1868. In applying this strict and narrow historical deeply rooted test, the Court fails to consider the lack of respect and autonomy that women had in 1868. To the Court, if twenty-eight out …

Economic Governance And Violence: A Cross-National Analysis, Steven Mccain

Theses and Dissertations

Understanding how economic governance influences routine activities is crucial within the field of criminology to better understand how grounds for violence emerge. Literature of cross-national studies concerning the effects of economic governance has recently developed to study its relationship with violence, specifically homicide. However, there is a deficit of frameworks related to criminological theory in this literature. Using a routine activity framework, the current dissertation seeks understand how different degrees of economic governance in general and, more specifically, the five areas of economic governance – size of government, legal system and property rights, sound money, freedom to international trade, and …

Horse Cave Heritage Festival, 2014 (Fa 1404), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1404. Audio, photographs, and video documenting the Horse Cave Heritage Festival, an annual September event in Horse Cave, Kentucky celebrating local heritage with craft artisans, antique vehicles, children’s activities, food, music, and other attractions. Includes interviews and a narrative stage hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

2023-December-04-2023 Annual Etsu Holiday Lighting Ceremony, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

The 2023 holiday lights will be turned on Monday, Nov. 13 in a special ceremony in Alumni Plaza in front of Burgin Dossett Hall.

East Tennessee State University illuminiated the campus at the annual holiday lights ceremony on Monday, Nov. 13, at 5:45 p.m. at ETSU’s Alumni Plaza.

Festivities included live music by the ETSU Jazz Ensemble, a movie, free hot cocoa, cookies and more.

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East Tennessee State University was founded in 1911 with a singular mission: to improve the quality of life for people in the region and beyond. Through its world-class health sciences programs and interprofessional …

Dean's Summer Fellowship Research Project Aides Inclusivity Training For Faculty, Lauren Mccarty

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

UD senior Logan Trzeciak worked to make classrooms more inclusive by creating resources to educate faculty.

The Power Or Words: Increasing Student Vocabulary Acquisition, Kelly M. Tiers

Masters Projects

A lack of vocabulary knowledge may have an influence on student reading comprehension. Reading comprehension, a fundamental, skill, hinges on understanding unknown vocabulary. The research highlights the significant correlation between reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge, stressing its increasing importance as students encounter more complex text. This project explores the importance vocabulary plays in reading comprehension and its link to overall academic success. It further explores strategies to effectively increase student vocabulary and comprehension. The project is designed for elementary classrooms (K-6) to be integrated into existing lessons and routines. An in-service session, part of a district-wide professional development day, will …

Evaluating The Perceived Preparedness Of Pre-Service Music Educators To Teach Students With Disabilities, Emily Jarvis

Honors Projects

This study evaluated the perceived preparedness of pre-service music educators to teach students with disabilities based on their university’s curriculum. Ten participants responded to a survey that asked questions on their feelings of preparedness in classroom management, teaching students with disabilities, university education, and personal perspectives. Overall, participants indicated they felt comfortable with teaching students with disabilities, but felt unprepared to teach specific components of disability education based on their program studies alone. Suggestions to improve university programs are based on implementing Universal Design Learning (UDL) practices.

Analyzing The Efficacy Of Covid-19 Travel Bans: A Regression Analysis Approach, Mallory Kochanek

Honors Projects

Some might associate the term ‘public health’ with the pandemic that occurred in 2020. COVID-19 spread like most have never seen in their lifetime. It is useful to look at the effectiveness of the travel re- strictions in mitigating the spread of the global pandemic. Using linear regression and network regression, we obtain parameter estimates to determine the relation of predictors, such as network effect, percentage of urban population and GDP, on the COVID-19 incidence rate for the months January to April of 2020. Linear regression does not ac- count for the correlation structure of the data. Network regression, on …

Alaska Earthquake Center Quarterly Technical Report July-September 2023, Natalia Ruppert

Alaska Earthquake Center Reports

This series of technical quarterly reports from the Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC) includes detailed summaries and updates on Alaska seismicity, the AEC seismic network and stations, field work, our social media presence, and lists publications and presentations by AEC staff. Multiple AEC staff members contribute to this report. It is issued in the following month after the completion of each quarter Q1: January-March, Q2: April-June, Q3: July-September, and Q4: October-December. The first report was published for January-March, 2021.

4 Cutting-Edge Machines Powering Uab Discoveries, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Cie152.3 Project Design And The Entrepreneur Business Concepts Example 2, Sae University College

Exemplars

CIE152 Project 3

Mmu: 12/04/23–12/10/23, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

This Week @ NDLS

Mass Times

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Crow's Nest, December 12, 2023, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The December 12, 2023, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Masthead, Cleveland State Law Review

Cleveland State Law Review

No abstract provided.

That Thing Ain't Human: The Artificiality Of "Human Authorship" And The Intelligence In Expanding Copyright Authorship To Fully-Autonomous Ai, Ernest Oleksy

Cleveland State Law Review

The U.S. Copyright Review Board (the "Board") decided that works entirely created by fully-autonomous artificial intelligence ("AI") are not entitled to copyright protections. The Board based its decision on a copyrightability requirement referred to as “human authorship.” However, the Copyright Act of 1976 (the "Act") never mentions a “human” requirement to copyright authorship, nor do most of the Board’s cited authorities. Denying authorship to intellectually-impressive and economically-valuable works under a poorly-established legal subelement is antithetical to copyright law’s history and to Congress’s constitutional mandate to “promote . . . [the] useful [a]rts . . . .” It leaves creators who …

Benchmark Study Of Early Palliative Care In End-Stage Liver Disease, Pebble Ward

MSN Capstone Projects

Patients with ESLD in general have high rates of healthcare utilization, resulting in more than 250,000 hospitalizations at $9.8 billion annually in the United States (Ufere et al., 2019). Liver disease is a rising cause of death worldwide, affecting younger people, but palliative care is largely absent for these patients (Kimball et al. 2018). Early readmissions are common for patients with ESLD and in the U.S. alone, over 25% of patients are readmitted within 30 days of their initial diagnosis, rates that now exceed those seen for patients with CHF and COPD (Ufere et al. 2019). Evidence shows that early …

2023-12-04 List Of Departmental Ranks, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A list of departmental ranks by college and department as of December 4, 2023.

Psammocora Stellata Distribution At Devil's Crown, Floreana Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, María José Guarderas Sevilla

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

In the Galápagos Archipelago, the free-living nodular coral Psammocora stellata is a common species that does not form reef structures. However, it is a key component of the ecosystem by increasing habitat complexity and, consequently, species diversity. This species experienced a drastic decline in Devil’s Crown channel, Floreana Island, where it disappeared after the 1982-83 El Niño-Southern Oscillation, presumably by displacement of unattached colonies by strong surface waves and currents. This assemblage has now recovered to pre-impact levels. A combination of underwater photoquadrats from 2007 and 2009 and recent (2023) orthomosaics were used to determine changes in coral densities and …

Evaluating The Energy Impact Of Device And Workload Parameters For Dnn Inference On Edge Rpe Report, Anurag Dutt

Electronic Dissertations and Theses, 2010-current

DNN inference is crucially employed in applications ranging from real-time speech recog- nition and language translation to autonomous vehicle navigation and personalized content recommendation, enabling applications to make quick, data-driven decisions. Consequently, these models are increasingly being deployed on edge devices, facilitating ubiquitous com- puting and enabling closer interaction with end users. More often than not, edge devices are constrained in computation resources and often run in battery-operated environments, which makes sustainable deployment of deep learning models essential. This work presents an evaluation of the energy impact of device and workload parameters for DNN inference on edge devices. Our work …

Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 4-Dependent Microglial Function In Myelin Injury And Repair, Jameson P Holloman, Sophia H Dimas, Angela S Archambault, Fabia Filipello, Lixia Du, Jing Feng, Yonghui Zhao, Bryan Bollman, Laura Piccio, Andrew J Steelman, Hongzhen Hu, Gregory F Wu

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Microglia are found pathologically at all stages of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion development and are hypothesized to contribute to both inflammatory injury and neuroprotection in the MS brain. Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) channels are widely expressed, play an important role as environmental sensors, and are involved in calcium homeostasis for a variety of cells. TRPV4 modulates myeloid cell phagocytosis in the periphery and microglial motility in the central nervous system. We hypothesized that TRPV4 deletion would alter microglia phagocytosis in vitro and lessen disease activity and demyelination in experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE) and cuprizone-induced demyelination. We found that …

Older Adults' And Caregivers' Perceptions About Urinary Tract Infection And Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Guidelines: A Qualitative Exploration, Michael J Durkin, Viktoria Schmitz, Kevin Hsueh, Zoe Troubh, Mary C Politi

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: To explore older adults' and caregivers' knowledge and perceptions of guidelines for appropriate antibiotics use for bacteria in the urine.

DESIGN: Semi-structured qualitative interviews.

SETTING: Infectious disease clinics, community senior living facilities, memory care clinics, and general public.

PARTICIPANTS: Patients 65 years or older diagnosed with a urinary tract infection (UTI) in the past two years, or caregivers of such patients.

METHODS: We conducted interviews between March and July 2023. We developed an interview guide based on the COM-B (capability, opportunity, motivation-behavior) behavior change framework. We thematically analyzed written transcripts of audio-recorded interviews using inductive and deductive coding techniques. …

Prevalence, Characteristics, And Correlates Of Probable Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Among Adult Respondents To The National Eating Disorders Association Online Screen: A Cross-Sectional Study, Laura D'Adamo, Lauren Smolar, Katherine N Balantekin, C Barr Taylor, Denise E Wilfley, Ellen E Fitzsimmons-Craft

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a serious, albeit under-researched, feeding or eating disorder. This exploratory study utilized data from adult respondents to the National Eating Disorders Association online eating disorder screen to validate items assessing the presence of ARFID and examine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and correlates of a positive ARFID screen.

METHODS: Among 50,082 adult screen respondents between January 2022 and January 2023, the prevalence of a positive ARFID screen was calculated. Chi-square tests and t-tests compared demographics, eating disorder attitudes and behaviors, suicidal ideation, current eating disorder treatment status, and eating disorder treatment-seeking intentions between respondents …

Maternal Diet During Early Gestation Influences Postnatal Taste Activity-Dependent Pruning By Microglia, Chengsan Sun, Shuqiu Zheng, Justin S A Perry, Geoffrey T Norris, Mei Cheng, Fanzhen Kong, Rolf Skyberg, Jianhua Cang, Alev Erisir, Jonathan Kipnis, David L Hill

2020-Current year OA Pubs

A key process in central sensory circuit development involves activity-dependent pruning of exuberant terminals. Here, we studied gustatory terminal field maturation in the postnatal mouse nucleus of the solitary tract (NST) during normal development and in mice where their mothers were fed a low NaCl diet for a limited period soon after conception. Pruning of terminal fields of gustatory nerves in controls involved the complement system and is likely driven by NaCl-elicited taste activity. In contrast, offspring of mothers with an early dietary manipulation failed to prune gustatory terminal fields even though peripheral taste activity developed normally. The ability to …

2023-12-04 Department Ranks, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

The ranks of faculty by college and department at Morehead State University calculated on December 4, 2023.

From Chinese Language To Female - Him, Humans And Us, Dandong Ouyang

Theses

To establish a new sense of ownership of the female figure in my studio practice, this thesis investigates the unspoken secondary existence of women implied in the structural systems of both language and portraiture.

Program Helps Mississippi Teachers Teach 'The Whole Child', Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – In a pre-K classroom at Rosser Early Learning Center in Moorehead, children sit with legs crossed and eyes closed. In what is normally a bustling classroom, an unexpected silence settles in.

University Of Richmond Chamber Ensembles, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Elisabeth's Gift: The Van Mullekom Collection, Michelle Schweickart

Marian Library Blog Archive

Explore unique Christmas greetings and images from vintage Christmas cards in the Elisabeth van Mullekom Collection.

Mitochondrial Gtp Metabolism Controls Reproductive Aging In C. Elegans, Yi-Tang Lee, Marzia Savini, Tao Chen, Yang, Jin, Qian Zhao, Lang Ding, Shihong Max Gao, Jessica N. Sowa, Jue D. Wang, Meng C. Wang

Biology Faculty Publications

Healthy mitochondria are critical for reproduction. During aging, both reproductive fitness and mitochondrial homeostasis decline. Mitochondrial metabolism and dynamics are key factors in supporting mitochondrial homeostasis. However, how they are coupled to control reproductive health remains unclear. We report that mitochondrial GTP (mtGTP) metabolism acts through mitochondrial dynamics factors to regulate reproductive aging. We discovered that germline-only inactivation of GTP-but not ATP-specific succinyl-CoA synthetase (SCS) promotes reproductive longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans. We further identified an age-associated increase in mitochondrial clustering surrounding oocyte nuclei, which is attenuated by GTP-specific SCS inactivation. Germline-only induction of mitochondrial fission factors sufficiently promotes mitochondrial dispersion …

Between The Stacks, 12-2023, Anna Swearengen, Michelle Dry, Carl Hess, Accessibility Committee

Between the Stacks

The December 2023 edition of the University Libraries monthly newsletter presenting a calendar of events for the month, library announcements, information about the UM3D Winter Summit event, news about the University Libraries and CWC winning a Sapphire Award, and an article by Carl Hess about accessibility checkers for ensuring digital accessibility.