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Byu Rocketry: 2025 International Rocket Engineering Competition, Barry Creighton, Tyson Butterfield, Haylee Sevy, Brian Bodily, Max Coverston, Bryant Neuvert, Sam Bridge, Matt Taylor, Caleb Fears, Andrew Mcdonald, Tj Neyman

Utah Space Grant Consortium

BYU Rocketry will compete in the 2025 IREC competition near Midland, Texas in in the 30,000 ft commercial motor category. The 10 ft and 76 lb. rocket, Escalante, is a tribute to the red rocks of southern Utah and is our next step on the staircase of progress as we attempt to go higher and faster than ever before.

Gasrats Cubesat Transparent Antenna Payload, Ethan Wayland, Tyler Day, Jaret Riggs

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The Get Away Special Radio and Antenna Transparency Satellite (GASRATS) is a technology demonstration CubeSat designed and built by the USU Get Away Special Student Satellite Team. The project involves a state-wide outreach program and has been accepted for NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative

International Rocket Engineering Competition, Ryan Lewis, Nick Woolsey, Wyatt Daugs, Brandon Williams, Hagen Walker, Ava Wilkey, Alex Nielson, Jared Jones, Ryan Johnson, Ethan Baer, Mike Wendell, Weston Fausett

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The Intercollegiate rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) challenges teams to design, build, and launch a high-powered rocket to a target altitude of 10,000 feet while recovering all components, Our team must integrate propulsion, avionics, recovery, and payload systems within strict safety, budget, and design constraints, demonstrating proficiency and innovation in rocketry.

Lunar Landscaping: Designing A Berm-Building Robot For Nasa Lunabotics, Vincent Banh, Anthony Bolda, Nathaniel Bruns, Brycen Cheney, Samuel Friel, Najman Husaini, Wyatt Jones, Reagan Maughan, Jacob Wilson, Joseph Youngblood

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The goal of the NASA Artemis missions are to establish long-term human presence on the moon. This year's NASA Lunabotics competition tasks teams with building robots capable of traversing and landscaping in a simulated Lunar terrain to gather data on Lunar construction. The competition goal is to construct a robot capable of building a berm out of regolith simulant. A diagram of the competition layout is shown in Figure 1.

Cubesat: Structure, Berk Mair, Korbin Burton

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Design, prototype, redesign, test, and fabricate the best 3U structure for the Utah Tech CubeSat to contain and protect the payload and necessary subsystems.

Cubesat: Communications P.A.R.R. Earth Station, Adam Dimaio, Patrick Robanske, Braden Williams, Ryley Horrocks

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Designed and prototyped developed an autonomous earth station with RF tracking and SatNOGS integration to enable reliable satellite communication for environmental monitoring.

Food Delivery Robots On College Campuses: Understanding Consumer Perceptions And Value Dimensions, Hayeon (Hailey) Choi, Hyun-Woo (David) Joung, Eun-Kyong (Cindy) Choi

ICHRIE Research Reports

The integration of autonomous delivery robots in the foodservice industry offers a promising innovation for enhancing delivery efficiency. College campuses, with their controlled environments and predictable layouts, serve as optimal testing grounds for these robots. This study examines the multifaceted values influencing the adoption and perception of food delivery robots on college campuses, providing insights for industry stakeholders. Findings indicate that functional and emotional values play the most significant role in shaping consumer perceptions, followed by price, novelty, and social values. However, preferences vary based on gender and role (students and faculty/staff), highlighting the need for targeted marketing strategies. These …

Sustainable Tourism In Kenya: An Analysis Of Tourism Policy Currently Under Consideration, Jacquelyne Muhati

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper examines tourism policy in Kenya in the context of sustainable tourism development. It considers the critical factors that might hinder the development of the sector and highlights the shortcomings in the policy development. It will give a general review of policy development and its significance in Kenya. There will also be an analysis of the key issues in the current policy development in Kenya, and finally, consideration is given to the aspects of policy that the current policy makers should pay attention to in relation to the strategic approach to sustainable tourism development. With the growing economic significance …

The Future Of Monetary Integration In Southern Africa: Lessons From The European Union?, Richard Dutu, Donald L. Sparks

Journal of African Policy Studies

The 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) has a long-term goal of becoming a full common market. A major component of fuller integration would be a common currency arrangement. The states of southern Africa, however, face a dilemma: While the region already sustains a successful and long-running monetary union, the Common Monetary Area (CMA, known as the "Rand Zone"), the region's leading economic integration organization, the SADC, is opposed to joining the union.

The Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA)—a less successful, but rival economic organization—favors, for its part, a monetary union. Is the SADC ready for monetary …

Determining The Effectiveness Of An Educational Intervention On Self-Management Behaviors Of Adults With Type 2 Diabetes At A Rural Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project, Stacy L. Harvey

Dissertations

Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (T2DM) has the highest mortality deaths, and these are projected to increase over the years. Living with diabetes can be very stressful to manage because of the complexity and required multidisciplinary approach required for effective health maintenance and lifestyle management. Diabetes self-management education programs are essential for improved glucose control and the goal is to help patients improve their lifestyle choices through knowledge of the disease for effective self-management behaviors in the essential areas of diet, exercise, glucose monitoring, medication and cooperation with the diabetes team.

Washington Report: Aicpa Comments On Treasury Proposal To Limit Use Of The Cash Method Of Accounting, Kenneth F. Thomas, Carol B. Ferguson, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

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Estate Planning: Significant Recent Developments Concerning Estate Planning (Part Ii), Byrle M. Abbin, David K. Carlson

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300-900 Mhz Midband Array Design For The Lunar Farside Technosignatures And Transients Telescope, Daniel A. Kemp, Jamie A. Frei, Caleb S. Edmunds, Karl F. Warnick

Utah Space Grant Consortium

The Lunar Farside Technosignature & Transients Telescope (LFT3), planned as an ultra-high frequency (UHF) phased array near the lunar antipode, is introduced as a pioneering mission capitalizing on recent advancements in analog beamforming. LFT3's midband array specifically leverages a described analog beamformer to achieve critical baseline measurements, enabling observations of astrophysical phenomena free from terrestrial interference. The authors describe the development of a wideband, low-power analog beamformer suitable for lunar-based radio astronomy, evaluating the primary architectures: a combiner tree, Rotman lens, Butler matrix, Nolen matrix, and Blass matrix. Each approach is analyzed in terms of performance, complexity, reliability, and suitability …

Bistatic Continuous Wave Radar Using Sdrs, Matthew Finger

Utah Space Grant Consortium

This paper describes a research project at Weber State University (WSU) to create a small-scale passive-bistatic radar (PBR) using a low-cost software-defined-radio (SDR). SDRs have improved (in terms of performance versus cost) to where an affordable, low-power, receive-only radar system may be used in suitable RF environments.

The initial effort will generate a PBR testbed. Controlled measurement campaigns will validate radar-signal processing algorithms using two-dimensional geometries with a controllable transmitted signal. Follow-on research will integrate a two-element phased-array antenna at the receive SDR.

Using Nasa Awe Observations To Investigate The Global Distribution Of Concentric Gravity Waves, Anastasia King-Brown, Ludger Scherliess

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Upward propagating atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) originating from various lower atmosphere sources can transport energy and momentum into the Earth's upper atmosphere. In the ionosphere, GWs produce traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), generate electric fields, and appear to contribute to the seeding of equatorial plasma bubbles that have detrimental effects on navigation, communication, and surveillance systems. Despite their importance and decades of research there are still many open questions regarding the morphology and dynamics of gravity waves. Of particular interest are concentric gravity waves (CGWs), as they are the direct result of the coupling between lower and upper atmosphere . For …

Classification Of Brain Tumor Using Hybrid Pre-Trained Networks And Mrmr Algorithm, Mustafa Ridha Al-Yasari, Mohammed Qasim Alazzawi, Sarmad Jawad, Mohammed Alshujairi, Zamzam Ali Abood Noory Al-Shafiee, Jaber Parchami, Heba. G. Abdelzaher, M. A. Abdelzaher

Al-Mustaqbal Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences

Brain tumor classification is one of the crucial uses of medical image processing. A longer life is possible if the tumor is correctly and promptly diagnosed. Because manually segmenting brain tumors for cancer diagnosis is difficult and time-consuming, automatic classification of brain tumor images is necessary for this task. Pre-processing, feature extraction, feature selection, and classification are the four stages of the general framework for automatic tumor detection from MRI images. The method for automatic brain tumor classification described in this research combines machine learning and deep learning algorithms. We used three pre-trained deep networks to extract the most detailed …

Biosignature Analysis In Saline Environments Using The Microfluidic Organic Analyzers For Biosignatures (Moab), Andrew Pack, Parker Jenkins, Jungkyu (Jay) Kim

Utah Space Grant Consortium

This study examines amino acid stability in high-salinity environments to enhance biosignature detection technologies. Using both absorption spectroscopy and capillary electrophoreses (CE), we investigated the survivability of valine and serine in laboratory-created brines simulating those found on celestial bodies throughout the solar system. Our findings reveal a protective effect of brines on amino acids, with reduced degradation rates compared to control samples containing no salts. During the 12-day observation period, both polar and non-polar amino acids showed enhanced stability in high-salinity environments, though non-polar amino acids exhibited more pronounced benefits from this protective effect. Valine concentrations in saline conditions decreased …

Tax Trends, Nicholas J. Fiore

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Nigeria, Globalization And The Development Of Underdevelopment In The Third World, Kema Lrogbe

Journal of African Policy Studies

There are two contending opinions on the issue of globalization. There are some observers who believe that globalization has brought rapid prosperity to the underdeveloped countries while others argue that globalization serves the needs of the metropolitan countries at the expense of the peripheral countries. This paper posits that globalization is economic terrorism. Using a dependency theory to analyze the asymmetric relationships between the developed and the underdeveloped countries, the writer applies some economic indicators to highlight the widening gap between the two worlds. In doing so, it is argued that the socio-economic and political structure of the peripheral countries …

Tax Clinic, Stuart R. Josephs

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