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Artificial Intelligence In The Courtroom: Forensic Machines, Expert Witnesses, And The Confrontation Clause, Ian Maddox

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

From traditional methods like ballistics and fingerprinting, to the probabilistic genotyping models of the twenty-first century, the forensic laboratory has evolved into a cutting-edge area of scientific exploration. This rapid growth in forensic technologies will not stop here. Considering recent developments in artificial intelligence (“AI”), future forensic tools will likely become increasingly sophisticated. To be sure, AI-enabled forensic tools are far from theoretical; AI applications in the forensic sciences have already emerged in practice. Machine learning-enabled acoustic gunshot detectors, facial recognition software, and a variety of pattern recognition learning models are already disrupting law enforcement operations across the country. Soon, …

Water Tent: Seasonal Change Follow-Up Grades K-2, Haley F. Wicklein

Earth Around Us

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Leadership In Philippians: A Postcolonial View, Rick M. Kress

Masters Essays

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Lessons Learned From The Nh Pdg Community School Planning Grants, Nh Preschool Development Grant

Preschool Development Grant

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New Hampshire's Early Childhood Workforce, Nh Preschool Development Grant

Preschool Development Grant

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Masthead, Volume 74 Issue 3 (2024)

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Legal Implications Of Remote Exam Proctoring: Extending Federal Law To Protect Student Privacy, Addie Griffey

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Symposium: Judicial Conduct, Ethics, And Reform - Introduction - Judicial Legitimacy: Come For The Ethics, Stay For The Transparency, Elizabeth Rosenblatt

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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A Professionally Responsible Supreme Court?, Rakesh K. Anand

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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The Rulemakers: An Empirical Analysis Of Chief Justice Appointments To The Judicial Conference Rules Committees, Dawn M. Chutkow, Michael Heise

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Resequencing Article V Conventions To Facilitate Nonpartisan Structural Amendments, Timothy Schnabel

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Do Students Leave Their Constitutional Rights At The (Charter) Schoolhouse Gates?: Charter Schools’ Collision Course With A Restrictive State Action Doctrine, Michael O’Donnell

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Introduction - Permitting The Future, Jonathan H. Adler

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Infrastructure For The Energy Transition, Timothy Fitzgerald

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Permitting The Energy Transition, James W. Coleman

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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The New Nepa? – A Case Study In Congressional Frustration, Victor Flatt

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Cracking Causation: The Need For A Workable Link Between The Anti-Kickback Statute And False Claims Act, Andrew Mcgirty

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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A Cytosine Analogue 5-Azacitidine Improves The Accumulation Of Licochalcone A In Licorice Glycyrrhiza Inflata., Xiaoling Ma, Ningxin Jiang, Jingxian Fu, Yuping Li, Lijun Zhou, Ling Yuan, Ying Wang, Yongqing Li

Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications

Licochalcone A (LCA) is a characteristic compound of Glycyrrhiza inflata with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antitumor activities. However, G. inflata produces LCA in low quantities that does not meet the market demand. In this study, we found that DNA methylation inhibitor 5-azacitidine (5-azaC) successfully improved the LCA contents in G. inflata seedlings. Transcriptome analysis revealed a series of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), including transcription factors such as MYB, ERF, WRKY, and some structural genes related to flavonoid biosynthesis. However, whole genome bisulfite sequencing (BS-seq) results showed little effect of the 5-azaC treatment on the alteration of DNA methylation on these genes, …

The Mechanism Of Sperm (Pro)Nuclear Migration In Plants And Animals, Yilin Zhang, Tomokazu Kawashima

Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications

Gamete nuclear migration is a critical process during fertilization in flowering plants, yet its molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. Recent studies have highlighted the essential role of cytoskeletal elements, particularly F-actin, in directing sperm nuclear migration, contrasting with the microtubule-driven migration in animals. We summarize the process of sperm nuclear migration in plants and the involvement of Class XI myosin XI-G in Arabidopsis, along with the ROP8-SCAR2 pathway’s ARP2/3-independent mechanism for F-actin nucleation. We also provide a comparative overview of examples from sea urchins, C. elegans, mice and yeast contrasting these mechanisms with those in plants. Finally, we …

Differential Gene Expression Analysis: Genomic Response In Human Peripheral Blood Following Neutron Exposure For Radiation Biodosimetry Applications, Rashmi Basavaraj

Open Access Dissertations

Radiation Biodosimetry is a crucial method for evaluating the biological consequences of radiation exposure on health outcomes. This technique estimates radiation dose by analyzing the biological effects it causes in the body becomes especially valuable in situations where traditional physical dosimeters, like badges, are unavailable or unreliable. In these scenarios, Radiation Biodosimetry enables accurate dose assessment, which is critical for making informed decisions during emergency response (triage), treatment planning, and long-term health risk evaluation.

Current biodosimetry methods struggle to accurately estimate radiation doses, especially for low-dose exposures or complex scenarios involving both neutrons and photons, like those arising from improvised …

Thermal And Electronic Properties Of Ni(110) Surface Using Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy, Lakshitha Dinusha Lathpandura

Open Access Dissertations

I have used a k-resolved inverse photoemission spectrometer to measure the spectral line intensity attenuation with increasing temperature observed on the unoccupied electronic structure of Ni(110) along the azimuth. By employing the Debye-Waller model to the results of a transition into the sp-derived bulk state, I estimate the effective surface Debye temperature of Ni(110) to be 240 ± 20 K. A phonon-slab calculation based on density functional perturbation theory yields a Debye temperature of a bi-layer Ni(100) slab is 343 K. The experimental underestimate can be explained by the fact that the valence electrons involved in inverse photoemission …

Eddy-Topographic Interactions, Alexis Johnson Exley

Open Access Dissertations

Eddies are an integral component of the large-scale ocean circulation and climate system. They play a significant role in redistributing heat and energy around the globe, locally enhance primary productivity and aid in carbon sequestration. They primarily result from instability processes that modify large scale flow into smaller scale features, often facilitated by interactions with large topography. This dissertation is focused on these interactions, the dynamics that govern the generation and maintenance of mesoscale eddies and global implications for our climate system.

The role of topography in the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Eddy (LCE) separation cycle is investigated in …

Molecules In Cool Stars: The A²Π - X²Σ⁺ And The B²Σ⁺ And The B²Σ⁺ - X²Σ⁺ Band Systems Of Cacl, Léo Lavy, Peter F. Bernath

Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Cool red giant stars exhibit absorption bands of calcium monochloride (CaCl) in the optical region. In this work, the bands of CaCl corresponding to the A²Π − X²Σ⁺ transition with v′ ≤ 4 and v″ ≤ 4, and B²Σ⁺ − X²Σ⁺ transition with v′≤ 2 and v″ ≤ 2 are rotationally analyzed with PGOPHER, a multipurpose program for simulating and fitting molecular spectra. All bands were analyzed using high-resolution absorption spectra collected at the National Solar Observatory in 1985, calibrated with atomic lines from a high-resolution emission spectrum obtained …

Higher-Derivative Quantum Field Theory And Its Implications For Hawking Radiation And Nonlocality, Gordon Kanan

Physics Dissertations - Archive

One of the fundamental equations of quantum field theory is the Klein-Gordon equation which can be constructed using irreducible representations of the Poincar ́e group and describes the dynamics of spin-0 matter. The higher derivative Klein- Gordon equations are also constructed using irreducible representations of the Poincar ́e group and are, thus, invariant under operations of this group. These higher derivative Klein-Gordon equations can be placed into two series depending on the power of the derivative, one for odd powers of the derivative and one for even powers, whose solu- tions yield timelike and spacelike fields. Applying these higher derivative …

Internalized Racism: A Theoretical Model, William Glen Fisher

Theses and Dissertations--Sociology

Internalized racism exists, we can observe and measure the effect it has on people. It manifests from both the psychological and sociological factors that form a person’s racial self-image. As Campón and Carter (2015) state: “less attention to date has been given to … how racial minority groups appropriate (i.e., take in) racial beliefs.” (p.498). In this dissertation, I explore how internalized racism forms. Further, I propose a new theoretical model integrating two concepts, the racialized self and racialized experiences. Racism is found at different levels, within the self through the racialized self, it highlights how People of Color view …

Welcome To The Fruit Farm: How Queer Farmers Are Shaping The Agroecology Of The Future, Alessandra Del Brocco

Theses and Dissertations--Sociology

The question of sustainability has many different facets, but one of the most urgent issues is that of sustainable agriculture. Decades of agricultural policy demanded farmers go big or get out, more colloquially known as the government directive of the 20^th century to farm “fencerow to fencerow”. In the 21^st century, we now face a near-critical consolidation of farmland and decline in the overall number of farmers. If sustainability calls for a resilient, diversified agrisystem, how can we change direction at this point in the trajectory?

In this study, I demonstrate how queer farmers make valuable contributions to …

Reconciling With The State: A Narrative Inquiry Into The Perspectives Of Reconciliation Of Wrongfully Convicted Persons In Southern Nigeria, Chinyere Erica Chisom

Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations

Wrongfully convicted persons in Nigeria experience numerous harms and losses from their wrongful convictions and face various challenges after their exoneration and release from prison. These adverse effects occur on multiple levels of the wrongfully convicted persons’ relationships and impact these relationships in profound ways. Although legal remedies exist to deal with the aftermath of wrongful convictions in Nigeria, they are grossly inadequate. Reconciliation, an innovative, holistic, and restorative measure, is required to address the impact of these devastating experiences and repair the affected relationships. Grounded in the social contract, human needs, and restorative justice theories, this study employed a …

Investigating Hiv-1 Transmission To Human Cervix Using Reporter Virus Technologies, Dana Frances Indihar

All ETDs from UAB

Around 39 million people globally are currently infected with Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1), more than half of whom are women. HIV-1 is a retrovirus that infects and depletes an individual’s immune cells, culminating in the development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) if not managed with anti-retroviral therapies (ART). Most women acquire HIV-1 through heterosexual intercourse. However, the early mechanisms and virologic determinants of HIV-1 transmission to women remain unclear. Herein, we demonstrate transmitted/founder (TF) HIV-1 representing two genetically and pathogenically distinct subtypes (A and D) in vivo have distinct replication phenotypes in an ex vivo cervical explant tissue (CET) …

House Of Horrors: Shirley Jackson And The Perils Of The Domestic In American Literature, 1945-1965, Annmarie Demichiel

Open Access Dissertations

Recent years have seen a slight rise in academic and popular interest in the works of author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). Jackson’s novella The Haunting of Hill House (1959) was adapted into a Netflix series in 2018, while Ruth Franklin’s 2016 biography of Jackson brought previously unknown or overlooked details of Jackson’s life to the attention of scholars and general readers alike. Scholarly treatments of Jackson’s work are steadily increasing, and the focus of such treatments remains consistent and somewhat narrow: interpretations include attention to homosocial and possible homosexual relationships in Jackson’s fiction; her fiction’s placement in the lineage of gothic …

Drivers Of Phytoplankton Diversity And Primary Production Across Time And Space: Insights From The Northeast U.S. Shelf, Diana N. Fontaine

Open Access Dissertations

In the ocean, a group of drifting, photosynthetic cells called phytoplankton are vital to Earth’s carbon cycle. Through primary production, a process whereby phytoplankton remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it to organic carbon, these cells play a pivotal role in supporting marine food webs. Primary production is generated by numerous different types and sizes of phytoplankton; this myriad of phylogenetic diversity and large size range influences the fate of organic carbon in the global ocean. Due to their importance, phytoplankton community dynamics, including primary production and taxonomic diversity, are routinely studied. Much of this work, however, tends …