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Globe Biosphere: Standard Shrub Carbon Data Sheet 2026, Globe U.S. Coordination Office

GLOBE Data Sheets

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The Wanton-Lyman-Hazard Collection: Reanalysis Of A Legacy Collection, Emily E. Henderson

ENG 490 Senior Seminar Capstone

Constructed in 1697, the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House is one of the oldest remaining structures on Aquidneck Island. Archaeological excavation by Salve Regina University in the early 2000's uncovered 300+ years of material culture associated with the site, but these artifacts have since been subject to few and incomplete analyses. While discussing discrepancies in these earlier analyses of this site, ongoing research creates a collections management system for these artifacts and evaluates their potential to inform a variety of other research avenues in the future.

Race-Neutral Prompts, Racially Skewed Outputs, And Prestige Monopoly In Aigenerated Fashion Imagery, Ravieshwar Singh

LSU Fashion and AI x Policy Symposium

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Digital Cataloging For Cultural Heritage Preservation: An Object-Based Approach, Sujun Liu, Michael Mamp

LSU Fashion and AI x Policy Symposium

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Blue Earth, Pale Moon: Human-Ai Co-Authorship In An Ephemeral System, Angela Uriyo, Colleen Moretz

LSU Fashion and AI x Policy Symposium

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Narrative Intervention Structure: The "Semantic-Mechanical" Translation Path Of Clothing Silhouette Generation, Qianling Chen

LSU Fashion and AI x Policy Symposium

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Creating A Modern American Piano: Antecedent, Launch, And Reinvention Of Mason & Hamlin's Piano Line Through 1905, Arian Sheets

Dissertations and Theses

The American piano industry was in a significant period of technical innovation, increased production, and standardization during the second half of the nineteenth century. This resulted in the American form of the instrument dominating the design and sound ideals still expected of the modern piano. Mason & Hamlin, a major reed organ company, entered the piano market in the early 1880s, relatively late compared to the largest, and most market-dominant companies, such as Steinway and Chickering. This thesis examines the origin and early implementation of the designs and innovations that have become standard for the modern American piano, and how …

Green Cities Conference Proceedings-2026, Minoo Tehrani

Business Faculty Publications

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Procedimientos De Selección De Fuentes En Las Adquisiciones Federales De Estados Unidos: Una Introducción A Las Compensaciones De Mejor Valor En El Procedimiento De Negociación Competitiva, Daniel E. Schoeni

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Este libro es producto del III Congreso Internacional de Contratación Estatal, celebrado en Barranquilla en marzo de 2025, y tiene como propósito analizar uno de los aspectos centrales -y a la vez menos sistematizados e integrados- del derecho de la contratación estatal: las actuaciones y los procedimientos que estructuran el ciclo completo del contrato estatal. El texto tiene una premisa clara: la contratación estatal es una institución compleja, dinámica y funcional, cuya comprensión exige atender y entender una multiplicidad de actuaciones y procedimientos que la atraviesan, desde la celebración y el perfeccionamiento del contrato, la ejecución de obras en ausencia …

Strip-Till Adoption For Soybean Production In Eastern South Dakota: Plant Development, Seed Quality, And Economic Analysis, Nicolas Passone

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Soybean production in eastern South Dakota faces a persistent challenge: cool, wet spring conditions combined with heavy soils limit the adoption of conservation tillage despite its soil health and environmental benefits. Strip-tillage has been proposed as a middle-ground practice capable of providing conservation benefits while maintaining the seedbed quality advantages of conventional tillage. However, its performance in soybean production in South Dakota had not been evaluated prior to this work. This research examined the effects of tillage systems and fertilizer placement-timing, fertilizer rate, and seeding rate on soybean plant development, nutrient uptake, seed yield, chemical composition, and partial net economic …

Early Developmental Wounds To Interpersonal Struggles: The Role Of Emotion Dysregulation, Parth Yogesh Sompura

Selected Full-Text Master Theses 2021-

Numerous studies have examined the effects of trauma on emotion dysregulation or have focused primarily on childhood trauma. The present study aimed to understand the effects of trauma at different developmental stages: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The sample consisted of 201 participants, who were selected from a larger pool of participants who received course credit for completing this study. The results of this study revealed that trauma at all ages significantly and positively affects interpersonal difficulties, through emotion dysregulation as a positive mediator, as hypothesized. However, contrary to hypotheses, childhood trauma did not have a greater effect compared to adolescent …

A Full Polymer Piezoelectric Flextensional Energy Harvester, Nadia Ahbab, Sidra Naz, Bingqi Zhao, Tian-Bing Xu

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

This study presents a full polymer piezoelectric flextensional energy harvester (FPPFEH) comprising a single-layer poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) film bonded to a 3D-printed polylactic acid (PLA) flextensional frame. For an arm inclination angle of θ=10°, the free-body model gives a theoretical geometric force-amplification factor of M_F=cot θ ≈ 5.67; this value represents an ideal upper bound and was not independently validated by local force or strain measurements. During assembly, the film was tensioned only to remove visible slack and maintain a flat configuration. No intentional pretension was applied, and any residual tension was not measured. Off-resonance force-controlled tests showed …

Investigating Primary Motor Cortex Involvement In Mouse Vocal Communication, Elena N. Duryea Waidmann

Student Theses and Dissertations

Vocal communication is used to transmit a range of information to other individuals. While many vocalizations are innate, some species can learn to change their vocal output. This is termed vocal-learning, and it is a rare trait and a necessary building block for human spoken language and songbird song. Comparative work in humans and songbirds suggests that convergent genetic and neural specializations may drive these learned vocal behaviors. Two key features of these advanced vocal learners are: i) specialized primary motor regions in the forebrain with activity tied to vocalization; and ii) dense monosynaptic projections from the primary motor cortex …

Collaboration And Co-Management Ahead Of Permitting: Understanding How Actors And Their Interactions Lead To Non-Optimal Shoreline Projects, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Mariana Saitgalina, Michelle Covi

School of Public Service Faculty Publications

Living shorelines are widely promoted as nature-based solutions to coastal erosion and wetland protection, yet hardened shoreline structures continue to dominate even in jurisdictions with explicit policy mandates prioritizing living shorelines. In this research, we examine why non-optimal shoreline modification outcomes persist in Virginia (USA) despite a regulatory framework designed to promote ecological alternatives. We use primary data from interviews with wetlands board members, marine contractors, and nonprofit organizations and findings from a secondary survey of shoreline property owners to analyze shoreline management as a multi-sector collaborative decision-making process. Findings show that shoreline outcomes are shaped less by individual regulatory …

Communication Sciences And Disorders Faculty Perspectives On Collaborating With Students As Instructional Partners, Bryanna Cosman

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Student-faculty partnerships, such as instructional partnerships, have been shown to benefit both students and faculty members who engage in them. This form of collaboration does not commonly occur at public, comprehensive universities, especially in the field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD). The purpose of this study was to understand the perspectives of CSD faculty on collaborating with students as instructional partners (IP), as there is limited research on it. IPs are students who have successfully taken a class in the recent past, attend the course in a subsequent semester, and meet after each class with the professor to discuss …

Broken Lands And Trusts: The Omnipresence Of The Natives’ Land Act Of 1913 And The Persistence Of Its Inequity, Emily Venkatesan

Emory International Law Review

The hallmark of all colonial and ex-colonial states is the preservation of racial hierarchy where a minority of white colonizers reserve complete control over the political, social, and economic landscape of a colonized nation. One of the most powerful exercises of this colonial oversight is the use of western property law to strip native landowners of their property interests and redistribute that land to white colonizer for economic and social power. Access and ownership of land is crucial for maintaining the colonial state. Land provides social and economic leverage in the hands of the indigenous nation, but strengthens the colonial …

Gamification: The Viability Of Using Genai To Create Games To Teach Legal Concepts, Nicole Belbin

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay examines whether generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can lower the technical, time, and cost barriers that have limited the use of game-based learning (GBL) in legal education. It first considers the science of learning, focusing on spaced practice, retrieval practice, and concrete examples, and explains how GBL can incorporate these strategies. It then evaluates four general-purpose GenAI tools—Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude—by testing their ability to state legal rules accurately and create games that teach personal jurisdiction.

The results demonstrate both GenAI’s promise and its limitations. Although all four tools incorporated core concepts of general jurisdiction, each omitted at …

Peeking Inside The Black Box: Discovery In Fair Housing Act Cases Arising From Ai Decision Making, Jessica Mahon Scoles

Faculty Scholarship

In today’s real estate market, more housing decisions are being automated. If artificial intelligence renders a biased decision, will the person impacted have any legal recourse? Commentators have expressed concern that the proprietary nature of AI will allow defendants in discrimination lawsuits to avoid discovery, effectively shielding their decision making from judicial scrutiny. This article examines whether AI and algorithm-related information is the discovery black box that some fear it to be.

Addressing the issue in the context of Fair Housing Act (FHA) litigation, the article argues that concerns about access to AI and algorithm-related discovery are overstated. In real …

A Comprehensive Survey On Facial Expression Generation: From Gans To Llm-Guided Multimodal Models, Murad Hasan, Rabab Abdelfattah, Kareem Abdelfatah, Mostafa Fouda, Ahmed Sherif

Faculty Publications

Facial expression generation (FEG) has emerged as a vital area in human–computer interaction, virtual avatars, and affective computing, aiming to synthesize natural and expressive facial behaviors across diverse interaction contexts. This survey presents a comprehensive analysis of recent advances in FEG, organized into six key paradigms: speech-driven expression generation, facial reaction generation, face video generation, facial animation, avatar-based generation, and text-driven expression generation. We review a wide range of model architectures, including VQ-VAEs, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), 3D Morphable Models (3DMMs), Transformers, and diffusion-based approaches, and compare their performance using commonly adopted evaluation metrics such as Fréchet Distance (FD), Peak …

Bridging Divides, Building Futures: Affirmative Action From A Global Perspective, Irene Rhodes

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

Affirmative action in higher education has long been central to U.S. constitutional debate, but the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) ended race-conscious admissions. This Article uses a comparative framework to examine how Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and India reconcile equality, diversity, and meritocracy. Common law systems emphasize incremental positive action, while Brazil and India employ quota-based statutory models. These contrasts reveal that effective diversity policies must align with constitutional traditions. For the United States, durable reforms should include race-neutral socioeconomic indices, statutory authorizations, and programmatic supports with built-in review mechanisms. By drawing on …

Gorsuch’S Dissent And The Current State Of Navajo Water Rights Claims, William Clark

Utah Law Review

Water rights have been a key feature of the Navajo Nation’s relationship with the United States. Since the time the Navajo were forcibly removed to the Bosque Redondo in the 1860s, the Tribe has fought for sufficient access to water. A key, but unfortunate, moment in this dispute came when the United States Supreme Court, in Arizona v. Navajo Nation, determined that the 1868 treaty between the United States and the Navajo Nation did not require the United States to take steps to secure water for the Tribe. The Navajo Nation is now on the cusp of settling its Colorado …

Prevalence And Incidence Of Heart Failure Phenotypes Among Transgender And Gender-Diverse Adults In The United States, Ian K. Everitt, Emily K. Quinn, Meredith S. Duncan, Chris Grasso, Sari L. Reisner, Guneet K. Jasuja, Tonia Poteat, Ayelet Shapira-Daniels, Howard Cabral, Vin Tangpricha, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Emelia J. Benjamin, Monica Mukherjee, Carl G. Streed

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Prevalent and incident heart failure (HF) and its comorbidities have not been characterized in transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) populations. This study determines the prevalence and incidence of HF phenotypes by gender identity. METHODS: A retrospective cohort analysis was performed using deidentified administrative claims from the Optum Labs Data Warehouse (2006-2022). TGD adults and a sample of demographically similar cisgender comparators were identified using a validated algorithm, and gender identity was categorized as cisgender man, cisgender woman, transmasculine, transfeminine, or unclassified TGD. Prevalent and incident HF, including systolic, diastolic, and unclassified phenotypes, were assessed using diagnosis codes. Multivariable logistic and …

Catwalk Xt Enables Sensitive Detection Of Locomotor Deficits After C2 Hemisection And Integrates Readily Into Ongoing Experimental Workflows In Adult Female Rats, Aaron L. Silverstein, Christopher M. Calulot, Christopher J. Mclouth, John C. Gensel, Warren J. Alilain

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Over half of all spinal cord injuries (SCIs) in the United States occur at the cervical level and often cause both life-threatening breathing dysfunction and profound locomotor deficits. Although the C2 hemisection (C2Hx) model is vital for study of breathing dysfunction after experimental SCI, post-C2Hx locomotor deficits have only been assessed by metrics such as the Martínez Scale and ladder tests, which require time-intensive scoring by human observers. However, the CatWalk XT Gait Analysis system (Noldus Information Technology) delivers automated, quantitative assessment of interlimb coordination, gait cycle, and paw function, providing robust locomotor data in a time-efficient and practical manner. …

Integration Of Community-Engaged Research Technology And Methods To Guide Tobacco Regulatory Science In Rural Communities, Melissa H. Abadi, Stephen R. Shamblen, Mary Kay Rayens, Kirsten T. Thompson, Amy Wildman, Kathy Rademacher, William Wieczorek, Raphael Nishimura, Shyanika W. Rose, Mikhail N. Koffarnus, Seth Himelhoch, Ellen J. Hahn

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Objective – This study aims to build a rural Appalachian cohort to examine how US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) regulatory policies influence tobacco and nicotine product use across levels of rurality. Methods – The AppalTRUST (Appalachian Tobacco Regulatory Science Team) Cohort integrates four inter-connected Community-engaged Research + Technology (CEnRT) elements to support recruitment and retention: (1) building trust and cultural relevance; (2) addressing barriers to participation in research; (3) focusing on ethics and confidentiality; and (4) fostering ongoing and consistent collaboration between the scientific and field teams. The study uses a dual sampling design …

Rethinking Team Science Metrics Through Collaborative Guideposts, Kristen J. Mcquerry, Kelsey Karnik, Megan E. Hall, Caitline Phan, Yana Feygin, Emily Slade

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Introduction – The increasing reliance on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams has reshaped how science is conducted, yet evaluating the success of such teams remains a persistent challenge. Traditional metrics, such as publication counts, impact factors, and citation indices, fail to capture the full scope of team contributions, particularly in contexts where success may be defined by community engagement, mentorship, or long-term collaboration. Methods – In this Perspective, we introduce Collaborative Guideposts, a framework designed to align success metrics with a team’s organizing priorities. We illustrate this approach through two contrasting team models from a biostatistical collaboration center: Team A, a …

The Influence Of Support From Family, Friends, And Community On Perceived Mental Health Status In Diabetes, Courtney L. Ortz, Meredith S. Duncan, Oluwatosin Leshi, Suraksha Khanal, Brittany Smalls

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Strong social support is a protective factor in diabetes and mental health management. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the type of support on perceived mental health status among people with diabetes. We used data from the 2021 Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Survey (MEPS). Regression models assessed the association between mental well-being (outcome) and expected help from family, friends, and the community (exposure). Support from both friends and family were significantly associated with better mental well-being, adjusting for covariates. Secondary analyses showed that those who reported greater anticipated support from family were more …

Digital Lover: Insecure Attachment Styles And Romantic Parasocial Relationship Among Chinese Female Otome Game Playersdigital Lover: Insecure Attachement Styles And Romantic Parasocial Relationship Among Chinese Female Otome Game Players, Weifan (Kyrie) Zhang M.S.

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

The existing literature has explored the relationship between insecure attachment styles and parasocial relationships, particularly focusing on traditional media such as television. However, it has largely overlooked the novel form of media represented by contemporary Chinese otome games, which offer an idealized digital environment potentially more appealing to players with insecure attachment styles. Moreover, previous studies have not sufficiently differentiated between general parasocial interactions and the specific nuances of parasocial romantic relationships unique to romantic video games (RVGs). This study seeks to bridge these gaps by examining the psychological underpinnings of Chinese female players' engagement with female-oriented romantic video games. …

Flood Risk Prediction System For Irish River Networks, Fernando Adalberto Naatz Heringer, Hugo Rodrigues De Freitas

ICT

Flooding costs the Irish economy more than 300 million euros annually; however, the hydrometric and meteorological data needed to predict dangerous river rises is already collected and freely available. This project applies machine learning to a decade of hourly observations from OPW Station 09001 on the River Liffey at Leixlip and Met Eireann Casement Aerodrome to build a flood risk prediction system with a 72-hour forecast horizon.

A two-phase modelling pipeline was built following the CRISP-DM framework. Phase 1 compared LSTM and GRU recurrent neural networks on the task of forecasting the river level in metres 72 hours ahead. LSTM …

A Comparative Analysis Of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques For Predicting It Incident Resolution Time, Ammad Hussain, Hussnain Yaqoob

ICT

IT support teams are facing the persistent challenge in estimating how long an incident will take to resolve. The lack of reliable predictions, planning decisions around staffing, escalation and user communication are largely guesswork. This project set out to address that gap by building a machine learning solution capable of predicting incident resolution time from details available at the point a ticket is logged.

Using the UCI IT Incident Event Log dataset, which contains 141,712 records from a real service management system, the project followed the CRISP-DM framework across six phases from business understanding through to deployment. After thorough data …

A Comprehensive Study Of Sarima And Xgboost Models For Short-Term Traffic Volume Forecasting At A Melbourne Intersection (Victoria), Australia, Douglas Vinicius Dierings, Felipe Fontanive Marques

ICT

Traffic congestion is an increasing challenge in modern cities, impacting transportation efficiency and urban sustainability. This project focuses on short-term traffic volume forecasting, using 15-minute Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) data collected from the State of Victoria, Australia. The study compares two forecasting approaches: SARIMA, a statistical time-series model, and XGBoost, a decision-tree machine-learning model. Historical traffic data from 2022 to 2024 was analysed to identify traffic patterns, seasonal trends, and peak traffic periods. The models were evaluated for their effectiveness in handling urban traffic behaviour. The results of this study aim to support smarter traffic management, infrastructure planning, …