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The White Peacock – A Masculinity Study, Katherine Pollert

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the feminist movement in England was making significant progress, effectively influencing the leading artists and scholars of the time to consider the nature of female oppression and to do their part to invoke change. Among these figures, D.H. Lawrence emerged as a provocative voice on gender and sexuality. To this day, his work remains a source of significant contention, often due to the controversial representation of gender and sexuality in his novels. For decades, feminist critics have debated Lawrence’s characterization of women, some accusing his work of misogyny, with others praising his careful …

Strategic Clarity And Its Impact On Improving The Mental Image Of The Organization: Analytical Research At The University Of Fallujah, Uday Awad Mahdi*, Ali Hassoun Al-Taie

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Purpose: This research emphasizes the need for the organization to redistribute powers and responsibilities internally, empower its human resources, and grant it various powers to present the opinions and proposals necessary to achieve this. Theoretical Framework: According to researchers (Ritchie-Dunham & Puente, 2008), the organization needs to establish its roots in its surrounding environment, it needs to strengthen its mental image and recognize the role that strategic clarity plays in achieving this. Design/Methodology/Approach: Analysis of study data in three colleges (2023-2024), using strategic clarity in its components (clarity of goals, clarity of organizational structure, clarity of employees’ role, clarity of …

Analize Exchange Rate Changes Effect On Poverty In Iraq For The Period (2004-2022), Ashraq Taleb, Azhar Hasan Hasan Ali

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Purpose: Analysis of the Impact of Exchange Rate Changes on the Poverty Index in Iraq and a Study of the Resulting Effects for the period (2004-2022). Theoretical framework: The research studied the relationship between the change in the (EX) and its role in reducing the phenomenon of poverty in Iraq for the period (2004-2022). The exchange rate is considered one of the most important tools of monetary policy in the Iraqi economy due to its sensitivity to any change taken by the monetary authority and its direct and indirect effects on all economic variables, including its impact on the poverty …

The Impact Of E-Commerce On Digital Marketing Hopes And Ambitions: A Case Study In Airline Reservation Offices In Iraq, Anas Maaroof, Abdullah Oğrak

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Purpose: The current study aims to identify the impact of e-commerce with digital marketing in airline reservation offices in the Republic of Iraq. The study consists of two main variables: the independent variable that included e-commerce, which consisted of four dimensions: Business-to-Business, Consumer-to-Business, and Consumer-to. - Consumer, Business-to-Government, and the dependent variable represents digital marketing, the dimensions of which are: website design, social media marketing, search engine optimization, and email marketing. Theoretical Framework: Upon on Maaroof, A. (2021) This study highlights the importance of e-commerce and digital marketing, such as booking corners during digital transactions in airline reservation offices, as …

The Modern Trends Of Economic Relations Between Iraq And China For The Period 2010 -2023, Salar Hamid Awakhti, Pana Foad Abdulla Ahmed

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Purpose: The study aims to analyze and understand the economic relations between Iraq and China in the modern era, providing insights into their development, current status, and future prospects. It seeks to identify the key factors influencing these relations and to evaluate the impact of trade, investment, and geopolitical strategies on bilateral economic ties. Additionally, the study aims to offer a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities present in the Iraq-China economic partnership. Theoretical Framework: The study utilizes frameworks that explain bilateral economic relations, including theories on trade, investment, and geopolitical influence. It integrates insights and data from studies …

The Impact Of Strategic Entrepreneurship On Strategic Performance: An Analytical Study At Maysan Oil Company, Maytham Challoob Hashim, Slim Chaouachi, Belgacem Bchini, Hakeem Hammood Flayyih

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Purpose: This research collects essential variables in the cognitive level of Strategic Management Resources (SMR) and provides a theoretical framework for Strategic Entrepreneurship (SE) and Strategic Performance (SP), which may benefit other researchers. Theoretical framework: Organizations seek an in-depth study to discover the reasons for developing SE and its impact on SP in encouraging employees to work or adapt to the new society. This study explores the impact of SE on SP at Maysan Oil Company. Methodology: The descriptive analytical method was used in this research to study and analyze phenomena due to its flexibility. Maysan Oil Company was chosen …

The Relationship Between Salvinia Molesta Infestation And The Microbial Ecology Of Wetlands At Caddo Lake, Tx, Usa, Martin Hadsell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Wetlands are known to host many beneficial geochemical processes such as nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration. These processes are primarily driven by the microbial communities within a wetland. The establishment of non-native invasive species within wetlands has the potential to alter the once beneficial functionality of wetland microbial communities due to the sensitivity microbes have towards environmental changes. Because of this, several metagenomic studies have been conducted to assess microbial community response to aquatic plant invasion; however, there haven’t been any studies researching the influence of Salvinia molesta (D.S. Mitch.), commonly known as Giant Salvinia, on microbial communities. The goal …

Comparative Analysis Of Inference Performance Of Pretrained Deep Learning Models In Analog Accelerators, Mafizur Rahman

All Theses

Resistive crossbars using non-volatile memory devices have become promising components for implementing Deep Neural Network (DNN) in hardware. However, crossbar-based computations encounter a notable challenge due to device and circuit-level non-idealities. In this study, we explored three recent crossbar simulation tools, namely, AIHWKIT, CrossSim, and MemTorch, and evaluated four pre-trained DNNs for image classification on CIFAR-100 dataset using these tools. All three tools had strong analog simulation functionalities that effectively mimicked the actual hardware environment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study using all three simulation tools of analog accelerators, representing three distinctive hardware settings, to …

Exploring Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann's Legal Pluralism In Slum Transformation: An Ethnographic Study Of Urban Revitalization In Indonesia, Imam Koeswahyono, Diah Pawestri Maharani, Nadyah Maylika Rahmawati, Ika Ismudyahwati

The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies

Slum areas in Indonesia present a significant challenge, with government programs such as the National Slum Upgrading Program (NSUP) aiming to address urban poverty and improve living conditions. Despite the implementation of formal policies, the interplay between legal frameworks and local practices often determines the success of such initiatives. Drawing on Keebet von Benda-Beckmann’s theory of legal pluralism, this research examines the transformation of slums into productive and sustainable zones, focusing on Kampung Jodipan, Kampung Heritage Kajoetangan, and Kampung Kreatif Dago Pojok. These case studies reveal how formal legal systems interact with informal norms and community-driven practices in achieving urban …

How International Students Affect Domestic Students' Achievement: Evidence From The Opt Stem-Extension, Town Oh

School of Business and Leadership Working Papers

In this paper, I investigate the effects of international student enrollment on the academic performances of domestic students in U.S. higher education. I leverage the large and rapid increase in international student enrollment after 2008, driven by an extension of the OPT duration that incentivized more international students to pursue U.S. college degrees. Using administrative data linked to first-year salaries, I find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the share of international students in STEM courses reduces domestic students' grades by 0.06 points on a 4-point scale.

Kinship Verification Based On Intelligent Techniques: Survey, Muna Ghazi Abdulsahib

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Kinship verification is the process of using observable characteristics, including facial features or other biometric data, to ascertain whether two people are familial related. Current approaches to kinship verification encounter multiple challenges, despite their significance in fields such as biometric security, family reunification, and forensic investigations. The most accurate way to confirm kinship is by DNA analysis, which is expensive, time-consuming, and invasive; in contrast, the traditional methods using manual comparison and facial recognition are more prone to human mistake. Visual verification of kinship among family members can be difficult to reliably rely on due to genetic variability, aging, and …

Pakistan Ischemic Stroke Guidelines, Anjum Farooq, Maria Khan, Ayesha Zafar, Husnain Hashim, Fozan Khan, Abdul Malik, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal Aga Khan University, Karachi, Mohammad Wasay

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

Stroke is the second leading cause of death and disability. Mortality related to stroke is very high in low- and middle-income countries. Stroke imposes a great socioeconomical burden in Pakistan. It is important to take important steps for prevention and proper management of stroke in country. Purpose of developing stroke guidelines is to improve stroke care in Pakistan. Guidelines are designed to help neurologists and general practitioners for treating stroke. American stroke guidelines, NICE guidelines, Canadian guidelines and multiple important articles including those emphasizing stroke care in low- and middle-income countries were studied, and these current guidelines were designed in …

Between Hope And Despair: The Misery Of International Law – Confrontations With Injustice In The Global Economy, Kanad Bagchi

Indian Journal of International Economic Law

No abstract provided.

Traittrainr: Accelerating Large-Scale Simulation Under Models Of Continuous Trait Evolution, Jenniffer Roa Lozano, Mataya Duncan, Duane D. Mckenna, Todd A. Castoe, Michael Degiorgio, Richard Adams

Entomology and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Abstract

The scale and scope of comparative trait data are expanding at unprecedented rates, and recent advances in evolutionary modeling and simulation sometimes struggle to match this pace. Well-organized and flexible applications for conducting large-scale simulations of evolution hold promise in this context for understanding models and more so our ability to confidently estimate them with real trait data sampled from nature. Results

We introduce TraitTrainR, an R package designed to facilitate efficient, large-scale simulations under complex models of continuous trait evolution. TraitTrainR employs several output formats, supports popular trait data transformations, accommodates multi-trait evolution, and exhibits flexibility …

Linking Human Resource Management Strategy To Organizational Performance: A Better Understanding Of High-Performance Work Practices In Higher Education, Laure Pou

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

A model of Human Resource Management (HRM) was presented by Guest (1987) as a new approach to management of personnel matters in which HRM strategy informs HRM practices, and both result in beneficial Human Resources (HR) outcomes, such as employee engagement. The notion underlying this model is that strategic HRM and related practices influence behavioral outcomes that positively impact performance outcomes for an organization. However, research to date has been inconclusive regarding how HRM systems or specific HRM practices are contributing to organizational performance (Paauwe, 2009). The intent of this study was to further examine the relationship between HRM practices …

Lost At The South China Sea: A Legal Rationale For Joining Unclos, Dean Feinman

Fordham Law Review

Rising tensions in the South China Sea are a tired front of great power competition. Since President Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia,” there has been renewed attention on growing Chinese naval power and influence, which stands to challenge the U.S. status as the world’s preeminent naval force. Despite a clear and obvious interest in maintaining a favorable global oceans regime, the United States has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the principal international instrument governing the use of the oceans. Instead, the United States argues that ratification is unnecessary because UNCLOS “embodies” customary …

Drivers Of Variability In Surf Zone Habitat Use By Sandy Beach Fish: Unwitting Citizen Scientists Reveal Detailed Spatiotemporal Patterns, Ryan Hepburn, Tim Scott, Sam Prodger, Benjamin J. Ciotti

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Surf zones of sandy beaches are among the most heavily impacted aquatic ecosystems, yet are of criticalecological importance for inshore fish and fisheries. Knowledge of the drivers of fish habitat use in surf zones isneeded across broad scales to advise conservation and fisheries management, but sampling capabilities can belimited in spatio-temporal extent and resolution. The lesser weever Echiichthys vipera is a small, benthic,venomous fish that dominates surf zone fish assemblages in Northwest Europe and inflicts painful stings onbeachgoers. This study capitalises on an extensive record of E. vipera sting incidents to characterise variations insurf zone habitat use in relation to …

A Sentinel Watching Over Inter-Tidal Seagrass Phenology Across Western Europe And North Africa, Bede Ffinian Rowe Davies, Simon Oiry, Philippe Rosa, Maria Laura Zoffoli, Ana I. Sousa, Oliver R. Thomas, Dan A. Smale, Melanie C. Austen, Lauren Biermann, Martin J. Attrill, Alejandro Roman, Gabriel Navarro, Anne Laure Barillé, Nicolas Harin, Daniel Clewley, Victor Martinez-Vicente, Pierre Gernez, Laurent Barillé

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that form extensive meadows from the inter-tidal zone up to ~50 m depth. As biological and ecological Essential Biodiversity Variables, seagrass cover and composition provide a wide range of ecosystem services. Inter-tidal seagrass meadows provide services to many ecosystems, so monitoring their occurrence, extent, condition and diversity can be used to indicate the biodiversity and health of local ecosystems. Current global estimates of seagrass extent and recent reviews either do not mention inter-tidal seagrasses and their seasonal variation, or combine them with sub-tidal seagrasses. Here, using high-spatial and high-temporal resolution satellite data (Sentinel-2), we demonstrate …

Enhancing Home Energy Efficiency: Web And Cloud Integration For Sustainable Electricity Monitoring, Kyle Aaron Coloma, King Harold A. Recto

Electronics, Computer, and Communications Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper demonstrates how sustainability can be integrated to technology by developing a cloud-based web application that monitors the use of energy in a residential setting. In the development of the minimum viable product (MVP), frontend tools were utilized to ensure that the platform runs on most types of devices. Moreover, backend tools were also used to ascertain efficient handling of data while maintaining security for the users. The project which has guaranteed fundamental functionality and a measure of security has been deployed successfully for early users. For future improvements, it is recommended to prioritize the optimization of user interface …

Eigenbin Compression For Reducing Photon-Counting Ct Data Size, Taly Gilat Schmidt, Zhye Yin, Jingwu Yao, Jiahua Fan

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Background

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) systems acquire multiple spectral measurements at high spatial resolution, providing numerous image quality benefits while also increasing the amount of data that must be transferred through the gantry slip ring.

Purpose

This study proposes a lossy method to compress photon-counting CT data using eigenvector analysis, with the goal of providing image quality sufficient for applications that require a rapid initial reconstruction, such as to confirm anatomical coverage, scan quality, and to support automated advanced applications. The eigenbin compression method was experimentally evaluated on a clinical silicon PCCT prototype system.

Methods

The proposed eigenbin method performs principal …

The Nextgen Bar Exam Meets The Next Generation Law Student: A Revised Approach To Legal Analysis, Scott Caron

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Automatic Speech Recognition Models For Pathological Speech: Challenges And Insights, Kesego Mokgosi, Cathy Ennis, Robert Ross

Conference papers

Conversational avatars provide innovative platforms for enhancing therapist-patient interactions in speech therapy by offering real-time feedback. However, the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models on disordered speech, such as dysarthria and stuttering, remains underexplored. The effectiveness of these systems hinges on the accuracy and processing speed of ASR models when transcribing pathological speech, particularly in real-time scenarios. This study evaluates several pre-trained ASR models, including Whisper-large- v3-turbo, Canary, DistilWhisper, and NVIDIA’s stt-en-fastconformer-ctc-large across three datasets: Common Voice (standard speech), TORGO (dysarthric speech), and UCLASS (stuttered speech). We assess the models using Word Error Rate (WER), Real-Time Factor (RTF), and …

Dwindling Appeals And Nonexistent En Banc Review In The Tenth Circuit, Wiley Kersh, Michael A. Kilbourn, Justin Marceau

Denver Law Review

Recently, the Denver Law Review published an Article by two Tenth Circuit Judges and a former clerk. The Article offers lawyers advice for best practices when seeking en banc review in the Tenth Circuit. This Response to that Article is not a critique of the sensible suggestions the authors offer. We regard the suggestions as solid advice for litigants attempting to present the strongest petition possible to the court. And we certainly do not seek to diminish the expertise and good intentions of the authors. But we do question the practicality of giving guidance on seeking en banc review in …

Public Health Emergencies And The Second Amendment, Amy Swearer, Paul J. Larkin

Denver Law Review

For many decades, gun control advocates, hoping to shift the terms of the debate to more favorable terrain, have argued that gun violence should be viewed primarily through the lens of public health. In September 2023, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and New Mexico Secretary of Health Patrick Allen pushed that rationale to its extreme and beyond. Under the auspices of the state’s public health emergency laws, they issued an executive order and agency directive that effectively eliminated the right of ordinary citizens to bear arms in public in the state’s most populous county. That attempt to circumvent the …

The Tenth Circuit's Nuanced Approach To Administrative Exhaustion Of Constitutional Claims, Yonatan Gelblum

Denver Law Review

The Tenth Circuit is typically more reluctant than most other courts of appeals to treat constitutional claims differently from nonconstitutional claims for purposes of administrative exhaustion. Consequently, the Tenth Circuit is less likely to exempt constitutional claims from exhaustion mandates. The Tenth Circuit usually requires litigants to raise these claims before a responsible agency prior to seeking relief in court, absent a particularized showing of undue burden or futility. Notably, despite the Supreme Court’s recent disparagement of administrative exhaustion of constitutional challenges to agency structure in Axon v. FTC and Carr v. Saul, the Tenth Circuit recently reaffirmed the continuing …

Victim Impact Statements In Mass Tort Bankruptcy Cases: Balancing Chapter 11'S Proceduralism With Tort Law's Commitment To Nonmonetary Recovery, Julia Boccagno

Denver Law Review

Bankruptcy has evolved into tortfeasors’ choice of law for resolving mass tort litigation. The United States Bankruptcy Code is equipped with procedural devices designed to maximize litigants’ financial recovery and enhance judicial efficiency. Although bankruptcy procedures aim to resolve widespread liability and open the courthouse doors to litigants who may not otherwise recover, they simultaneously overlook the nonmonetary and dignitary objectives underlying tort law. This Note uses the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma—a high-profile example of mass tort litigation resolved through bankruptcy—to examine the extent to which bankruptcy procedures are unable to fulfill the nonmonetary objectives …

The Research On The Impact Of Listing Regime On Innovation For The Biotech Industry: Inspiration And Experience From Mb Rules 18a Published By Hkex, Yueying Dong

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

The development of the Biotech Industry is not only connected to the national economy and livelihood of the people, but also affects the technology development, economy growth and national security of the country. The development depends on the technology innovation, with the essence for the continuous process of financial ecology guiding and technology refresh driving. For high-tech intensive industries of biotech companies, the development of the equity market is an important support for promoting the technology innovation. The capital market in guiding resource allocation has the responsibility of optimizing the listing regime, providing more external financing channels and promoting the …

Causality Analysis For Neural Network Security, Bing Sun

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

While neural networks are demonstrating excellent performance in a wide range of applications, there has been a growing concern on their reliability and dependability.Similar to traditional decision-making programs, neural networks inevitably have defects that need to be identified and mitigated at times. Neural networks are usually inherently black-boxes and do not provide explanations on how and why decisions are made. As a result, these defects are more ``hidden" and more challenging to eliminate. It is thus crucial to develop systematic approaches to identify and mitigate defects in a neural network in a rigorous way.

In this dissertation, we focus on …

Robust Learning With Probabilistic Relaxation Using Hypothesis-Test-Based Sampling, Zilin Wang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

In recent years, deep learning has been a vital tool in various tasks. The performance of a neural network is usually evaluated by empirical risk minimization. However, robustness issues have gained great concern which can be fatal in safety-critical applications. Adversarial training can mitigate the issue by minimizing the loss of worst-case perturbations of data. It is effective in improving the robustness of the model, but it is too conservative, and the plain performance of the model can be unsatisfying. Probabilistic Robust Learning (PRL) empirically balances the average- and worst-case performance while the robustness of the model is not provable …

Towards Robust, Secure, And Privacy-Aware Large Language Models Of Code, Zhou Yang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

The field of software engineering has witnessed a surge in large language models specifically tailored to understand and process code, which we call large language models for code (LLM4Code). The increasing popularity of LLM4Code is inseparable from three key factors: the availability of extensive datasets compiled from diverse data sources, the advancements in deep learning algorithms and computational power that facilitate the training of these powerful models, and the active engagement and collaboration within the research community fostering innovation and the rapid exchange of ideas and methodologies. As evidenced by a series of studies, LLM4Code has been experiencing rapid development …