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Does The Federal Budget Trump Constitutional Rights, Laura Snyder

Hofstra Law Review

Even though most Americans living outside the United States do not owe U.S. federal income tax, the U.S. nationality-based income tax system nevertheless places considerable burdens on them. In doing so, the system violates Fourteenth Amendment equal protection as well as other constitutional and human rights. The purpose of the system is not to raise revenue. Instead, its purpose is to punish and scapegoat American nationals living outside the United States, for no reason other than the fact that they live outside the United States. This is evidenced by the statements and actions of policymakers as well as by Internal …

New Legal Realism At 20: Rethinking Law In An Era Of Populism And Social Movements, Jeffrey Omari, Pablo Rueda-Saiz, Richard Ashby Wilson

Articles

This Article critically examines the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement on its twentieth anniversary and illuminates its distinctive intellectual contributions. In evaluating NLR's unique methodological and substantive contributions, we explore the movement's relationship to other interdisciplinary theories and empirical approaches to law. NLR approaches show a commitment to a comparative, cross-national exploration of legal phenomena while allowing for grounded generalizations about the relationship between law and society. NLR approaches embrace a diverse range of methods and emphasize the importance of "looking up, down, and sideways." Notably, NLR embraces both "top-down" and "bottom-up" methods, providing comprehensive insights into the intricate interactions …

An Exploration Of Np-Complete Problems In Finite And Infinite Constrains, Kayla Marie Schilz

Undergraduate Honors Theses

There is a long-standing problem in the mathematical world known as the P vs NP problem which relates to how we classify math problems. Problems in P are problems that are easy to solve and verify relatively quick whereas and NP are quick to verify, but it is unknown how easy or hard it is to solve quickly. We will discuss what it means to be solved quickly later on. Moving to the next classification, NP is either is equal to P, which would inherently make all P problems equal to NP-Complete, or P is simply not equal to NP. …

Feeling Triggered Yet? Nostalgic Triggers In Marketing, Lara Gerbino

ALL - Honors Theses

What leads people to reach out to someone that they do not talk to often? Getting back in touch with people helps make us happier, but research suggests that people reach out less than optimal (Rohrer et al., 2018). Socializing has been proven to help improve one’s overall mental health, happiness, and mood (Aknin, 2024). In two studies, we look at what features in a person’s consumption-based environment may trigger them to reach out to their loved ones. This ties back to marketing, specifically for social media companies, through people using their platforms to reach out to family/friends, which will …

How The Media Turns Serial Killers Into Celebrities, Abigail I. Wiker

ALL - Honors Theses

Serial killers are subjects of widespread news media coverage. News Media portrays these serial killers in a positive light instead of focusing on the facts of the case. This study explores how news media turn serial killers into celebrities by qualitatively analyzing news media articles on LexisNexis. Understanding how the media portrays serial killers in media can help prevent making serial killers into celebrities and stop revictimizing the families of the victims.

(Wp 2024-05) Emerging Engagement Between Philosophy And Philosophy Of Economics: Parfit, Simon, And Sen, John B. Davis

Economics Working Papers

This paper investigates philosophy’s engagement with one social science, economics, via the philosophy of economics. It first distinguishes mainstream philosophy of economics and heterodox/non-mainstream philosophy of economics, and then argues that the latter’s increasing recourse to analytical reasoning in philosophy to advance its critiques of mainstream economics points toward a new engagement between philosophy of economics and philosophy. To provide grounds for this argument, the paper discusses shared thinking of three key figures: philosophy’s Derek Parfit and from economics Herbert Simon and Amartya Sen. It argues their respective critiques of dominant ideas in their fields reflect a little discussed convergence …

Cross-Training Effects: The Impact Of Ballet Instruction On Athletes' Physical Attributes And Performance, Erin Lane

Master's Theses

This thesis, titled "Cross-Training Effects: The Impact of Ballet Instruction on Athletes' Physical Attributes and Performance," investigates the influence of ballet training on the physical attributes and overall performance of athletes across various sports. Recognizing the historical use of ballet to enhance flexibility, strength, balance, and precision in its own training, this study focuses on the examination of the effects of ballet as a cross-training method. By employing a mixed-methods research design, the study involved 11 female participants from diverse athletic backgrounds who engaged in structured ballet instruction over six weeks. Quantitative assessments measured changes in flexibility, balance, speed, and …

Exploring The Impact Of Using Mirrors Versus Not Using Mirrors In An Intermediate High School Dance Class, Melanie Monnich

Master's Theses

The purpose of the study was to understand the use of mirrors vs. not using mirrors in the high school classroom. This thesis also expanded on research done in the last twenty years regarding students' relationship to the mirror and how educators could better use or not use the mirror in the classroom. The researcher asked five essential questions that guided this thesis:

Q1 How does using mirrors vs. not using mirrors affect a student's body image in a high school dance class?

Q2 Is it necessary to always use mirrors in the classroom as a learning tool for students? …

Crafting Affective Engagement: The Impact Of Choreography And Design Choices On Audience's Emotional Experience In Dance Performances, Amy Morton

Master's Theses

This thesis explored how the engagement level of dance spectators influenced the lasting impressions they retain from a performance and whether these impressions can expand and sustain audience interest in dance. The purpose of the study was to identify the most engaging elements of an aerial dance concert. The study emphasized the significance of creating choreography that evokes emotional responses to advocate for dance education, community engagement, and the preservation of the art form. By examining a site-specific aerial dance concert, this research identified the elements that captivated audiences, particularly the contrast between aerial and ground-based performances.

The research addressed …

Improving Primary Care Providers Awareness, Knowledge, Attitude, And Intention To Change Practice About Uncontrolled Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Its Effect On Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease, Formerly Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Prognosis, Olivia Amoakowaa-Senya

Doctoral Scholarly Projects & Capstones

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), now known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the world. The mechanisms involved in its development and progression continue to be a mystery that scientists are trying to unravel. However, many research studies found a correlation between uncontrolled obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and worsening of NAFLD. Chronic intermittent hypoxia and sleep fragmentation in OSA increase sympathetic activity and promote oxidative stress, pro-inflammatory cytokine production, and metabolic dysregulation, which increases the risk of various diseases, including NAFLD/MASLD progression. Early assessment and screening for OSA in patients …

The Bander Portal Dats Submission Module, Lauren Walker, Matthew Rogosky, Kyra Harvey

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Using 'Enacted Purposes' To Interpret A Regulatory Statute, Bernard S. Sharfman

SMU Law Review Forum

How does a regulatory agency or a reviewing court deal with the multiple “enacted purposes” that may exist in a regulatory statute? In this Article it is argued that the problem of multiple purposes can be optimally dealt with by looking at these purposes as forming an optimization problem—minimization or maximization. This novel approach requires identifying, if possible, one purpose as the primary objective and then treating the other clearly stated purposes as constraints. Depending on the issue at hand, not all constraints will be relevant. However, the primary objective will always need to be considered. Once the primary objective …

The Federal Rules Of Constitutional Procedure, Ramon Feldbrin

UC Law Journal

Judicial review has distinct purposes, difficulties, and modalities, but there are no guideposts as to how these features ought to be addressed in procedural terms. The reason is a deep-seated, but largely unarticulated, assumption that constitutional litigation is simply governed by the same rules as other civil litigation in the federal courts. Yet the premise is fundamentally false. This Article draws new attention to rules and practices that have historically regulated constitutional cases and set them apart from the typical way all other cases make their way through the judicial system. These procedures include, among other things, the requirement to …

The Cognitive-Enhancing Properties Of The Aqueous Extract From The Fruits Of Terminalia Bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb., Poovizhi Bharathi Rajaduraivelpandian, Shamitha Rai, Rashmi Raghava Rao, Trishna Sudarshan

Open Access archive

Dementia is a progressive deterioration in cognitive abilities that hinders one’s capacity to function independently. The present dementia treatment includes galantamine, rivastigmine, donepezil,and memantine. However, they trigger many cardiovascular complications including syncopal episodes and myocardial infarction. Herbal medications are noted for their efficacy and absence of adverse pharmacological consequences. Hence the quest for herb-based medicines is happening. ‘Terminalia bellirica fruit pulp’ alleviates an array of illnesses. The ‘aqueous extract of Terminalia bellirica fruit pulp’ (AETBFP) was examined for cognitive-enhancing effects on rodents. Hebbs William and Elevated Plus Maze models were utilized to test the cognitive-enhancing properties of the fruit pulp. …

Examining Nursing Students' Awareness Of Various Medical Errors During Clinical Internships To Enhance Patient Safety: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study, Ola Mousa, Basma Salameh, Asmaa Saber Ghaly, Md Gulzarull Hasan

Open Access archive

Background Patient safety is a global concern within health facilities, primarily attributed to medical errors, constituting a significant global public health issue. Patients experiencing medication errors face serious problems, with increasing mortality rates and escalating hospital costs. Aim The study aims to examine nursing students' awareness of various medical errors during their clinical internships at Al- Ahsa, identifying types of errors to enhance patient safety. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 160 nursing students during their internship at King Faisal University, Al Ahasa, Saudi Arabia.A total of 131 participants completed a self-administered questionnaire based on a medical error scale …

We Are All Cafeteria Originalists Now (And We Always Have Been), Jack M. Balkin

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

In Memory and Authority, I argue that Americans, both in politics and in constitutional culture, are "‘cafeteria originalists.’ They pick and choose when to follow the views of the founders, framers, or adopters (as they understand them) and often artfully recharacterize these principles to support contemporary political and legal arguments.” Like customers in a cafeteria who take the chocolate cake and leave the boiled kale, Americans pick the features of the framers they like to support their arguments, and leave other, less savory, features behind.

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My central claim is that cafeteria originalism is not a pathology or a …

In Praise Of Ignoring Facts, Stephen E. Sachs

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Treating every use of legal rhetoric as equally probative of American law is fatal to the theoretical project—including to [Jack] Balkin’s own “thin” theory of constitutional law, which stretches itself past the breaking point in the hopes of accommodating the changing winds of social movements. Rather than take advocates’ rhetorical moves for granted, we scholars have the indulgence and time to look for the implicit theories underlying these moves, to air those theories explicitly, to identify what might make them true or false, and to assess how plausible they are on those grounds. Constitutional theories need microfoundations: a theory of …

Learning To Read Like An Eighteenth-Century Lawyer: The Historical Critique Of Originalism Revisited, Saul Cornell

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Historians have been among the fiercest critics of originalism. Among the many virtues of Jack Balkin’s book, Memory and Authority, is the deft way he analyzes and dismantles these efforts to insulate originalism from historical critique. In a short essay, it would be impossible to fully acknowledge the sophistication of Balkin’s analysis. Instead, I would like to build on his impressive achievement by pointing out additional problems with the originalist response to historical critique.

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Shared Memories And Constitutional Foundations, Sanford Levinson

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

It is significant that the first word in the title of Jack Balkin’s new book [Memory and Authority] is “memory.” A repeated theme of the book is that what binds a nation—or a constitutional order—together is shared memories around which diverse individuals can gather together and therefore establish themselves as a community. Balkin refers to an impressive array of sources with regard to the topic of “public memory,” but I want to concentrate on one of them, which is cited but not extensively discussed. That is Ernest Renan’s famous speech, delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris on March …

Strolling Down Memory Lane, Touring An Historical Restoration, And The Constitution Of December 11, 1865, Mark A. Graber

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The following pages [compare] a stroll down the Reconstruction section of memory lane with a tour of a historical restoration dedicated to reproducing the Constitution of December 11, 1865. Part I strolls down the Reconstruction section of memory lane by elaborating the conventional legal account of what Republicans were thinking when they sought to improve the Thirteenth Amendment’s Constitution immediately after the ratification of the constitutional ban on slavery was assured. Their most vital and often sole concern, legal opinions from the Slaughter-House Cases to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard agree, was to alleviate doubts among anti-slavery advocates about …

Positive Behavior Intervention And Supports (Pbis) Data Systems, Drenushe Hukali

Student Projects for Graduate Degrees

The Anchorage Schools District (ASD), a large and diverse educational system, currently operates without standardized systems, tools and training for effectively capturing and analyzing student data. This limitation, coupled with reliance on outdated disciplinary practices, has resulted in a predominantly reactive organizational approach. Through the successful implementation of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework to PreK- 12+ students at all Anchorage School District (ASD) school sites, this project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an optimized documentation process within the district. This evidence-based, tiered framework supports students’ behavioral, academic, social, emotional, and mental health, which has been proven to …

The Evolution Of Artificial Intelligence In Gaming, Aditi Jorapur

ART 108: Introduction to Games Studies

No abstract provided.

The Nature Of Students' Justifications In Geometry: The Impact Of Using Dynamic Geometry Software, Anek Janjaroon

Doctoral Dissertations

Mathematical justification is a process that reflects how students demonstrate and accept the truth of mathematical statements. The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of students’ justifications when allowed to use dynamic geometry software in the justification process. The justifications of 18 preservice teachers in response to two geometric conjectures were analyzed to identify characteristics of justifications based on Harel and Sowder’s (1998) framework of proof schemes. The results inform us of the impact of the dynamic software in students’ justifications and the overall nature of students’ work when they use the software to learn geometric ideas. …

Cgbi_Yolo: Lightweight Land Target Detection Network, Ruiyang Wang, Siyu Lu, Jiawei Tian, Lirong Yin, Lei Wang, Xiaobing Chen, Wenfeng Zheng

Faculty Publications

Object detection algorithms for optical remote sensing images often face challenges in computational efficiency, particularly when detecting small and densely packed targets. This paper introduces CGBi_YOLO, a novel lightweight land target detection network designed to optimize computational resource utilization while maintaining detection capabilities for small-scale targets. Our approach incorporates an innovative lightweight optimization strategy featuring a new lightweight backbone feature extraction network: CSPGhostNet. This model significantly enhances the detection ability of small objects within optical remote sensing images without increasing computational demands. The efficacy of the proposed model is validated through rigorous experimentation on the DOTA dataset. Compared to the …

Research Overview On Urban Heat Islands Driven By Computational Intelligence, Chao Liu, Siyu Lu, Jiawei Tian, Lirong Yin, Lei Wang, Wenfeng Zheng

Faculty Publications

In recent years, the intensification of the urban heat island (UHI) effect has become a significant concern as urbanization accelerates. This survey comprehensively explores the current status of surface UHI research, emphasizing the role of land use and land cover changes (LULC) in urban environments. We conducted a systematic review of 8260 journal articles from the Web of Science database, employing bibliometric analysis and keyword co-occurrence analysis using CiteSpace to identify research hotspots and trends. Our investigation reveals that vegetation cover and land use types are the two most critical factors influencing UHI intensity. We analyze various computational intelligence techniques, …

Effects Of Experimenter Behaviors On Participants' Mood, Jackson Everett

Honors Theses

This study investigated whether experimenter behaviors affected self-reported levels of state and trait anxiety, emotional valence memory, and projective interpretations of ambiguous stimuli. I hypothesized that participants exposed to anxious experimenters would report higher levels of state anxiety, recall more negative words, and render more negative interpretations while warm experimenters would lead participants to report lower levels of state anxiety, recall more positive words, and produce more positive interpretations. Participants (N = 98) were randomly assigned to either an anxious, flat, or warm experimenter condition and completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger et al., 1983), heard a list of …

Giving True Blood Some Credit: A Paratextual Analysis Of A Tv Show’S Opening Sequence, Ava Nessell

Honors Theses

HBO’s television series True Blood is clear in the statement it is making about the mistreatment of minority groups in society. The show uses vampires as an allegory for these people with thinly veiled allusions. The purpose of this proposed study is to apply Gerard Genette’s theory of paratextuality to explain how the opening credits are an avenue to understanding not only the show, but the statement to society the show is making. The method to discuss paratextuality in the show will be to analyze each clip of the opening credits to see how it relates to the diegesis–the narrative …

Biomechanics And Clinical Implications Of Fontan Upsizing, Vijay Govindarajan, Akshita Sahni, Emily Eickhoff, Peter Hammer, David M Hoganson, Rahul H Rathod, Pedro J Del Nido

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: The Fontan operation, a palliative procedure for single ventricle patients, has evolved to improve outcomes and reduce complications. While extracardiac conduit (ECC) is favored for its simplicity and potential hemodynamic benefits, concerns arise about conduit size adequacy over time. Undersized ECC conduits may cause hemodynamic inefficiencies and long-term complications, while oversizing can lead to flow disturbances, stagnation, and thrombosis, necessitating surgical revision or upsizing to optimize hemodynamics.

Objectives: The study aimed to predict the impact of upsizing by developing a patient-specific workflow using cardiac magnetic resonance-based imaging and computational fluid dynamics to assess Fontan hemodynamic changes and determine the …

The Personality Profile Of Libya’S Muammar Gaddafi, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This research report, prepared for the France 5 television documentary “Le Monde en face: Kadhafi, la folie d’un dictateur,” presents the results of an indirect personality assessment of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.

Eco-Digital Trends: Consumer Behavior And Marketing Practices In The Dynamic Context Of Global Warming, Hesham Fazel

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This study targets climate change awareness of 4.54 billion internet users or 56% of the world's population. It examines the reception of brand messages that bring out the aspects of ecological sustainability in the context of the cultural values of social media users. Theoretical framework: The positive link between consumer behavior and environmental responsibility was derived from a web-based survey and PLS-SEM analysis with 480 participants. Design/methodology/approach: The data obtained from the survey on 480 participants is evaluated through a web-based survey and PLS-SEM model that generates the digital platform's interlinkage of consumer behavior with climate change awareness. Findings: This …