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Cellular Tracking Mechanisms In Zebrafish, Jonah Da Silva

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Sands Of Zealandia: Testing Ideas Of Sedimentary Provenance, Kali Bosket

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Experimental Investigation Towards Designing An Aerodynamically Efficient Vehicle Profile, Kazi Rafee

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Understanding The Effects Of Aphasia On Mental Health, Lauren Kossuth

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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An Analysis Of 'Effort' And Psychopathology In Children: Imputation Of Brain-Region-Specific Gene-Expression Levels With Braingene, Thomas Mitchell Mazza

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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The Barriers That Impede Community Engagement With Alternative Markets: Community Perspectives In Syracuse, Ny, Amanda Letts

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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21st Century Right Wing Rhetoric Evolution And The Effects Of Populism, Hannah Starorypinski

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Anti-Indigenous Sentiment And Right-Wing Ideational Populism In Araucanía, Chile, Megan Cooper

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Design Build: Construction Package For Bardy Farm Interior Fit-Out, Erik Dighton

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Design Build: Construction Package For Bardy Farm Interior Fit-Out, Alexandra Grypinich

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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The Salamander Fairy Princess, Phoebe Sessler

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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The Neoclassical View Of Corporate Fiduciary Duty Law, Zachary J. Gubler

University of Chicago Law Review

Traditionally, corporate fiduciary duties are said to run to the corporation itself. But what does this mean? Something, this Article argues, that is quite different from what both shareholder and stakeholder value maximization proponents think. Specifically, the argument is that corporate fiduciary duties are owed not to any flesh-and-blood stakeholder, including current shareholders, but rather to a hypothetical permanent investor whose holding period is forever. Like any statement of corporate purpose, this “permanent equity maximization norm” is rooted in an underlying model of the corporation. In this case, the underlying model must be one that sees the corporation as a …

Reflections Of A First-Year Chemistry Teacher: Intersecting Pck, Responsiveness, And Inquiry Instruction, Dana L. Morris

Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

Many educators agree that science instruction should be dominated by inquiry strategies, while others stress the need for responsive practices to place a focus on student learning and understanding. Some scholars believe the two approaches exist on opposite ends of an instructional spectrum, while others believe they may be aligned and intertwined. Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), the broadly accepted gold standard for science education, seems to include both. Understanding how teachers incorporate inquiry strategies and responsiveness and how the two intersect could lead to a more complete framework for K–12 science instruction and help streamline science teacher education. This qualitative …

The Bradley-Terry Model In Binary Outcome Driven Rankings: An Apllication In Amateur Hockey, Connor Meissner, Jeremy M. Losak

Sport Management - All Scholarship

Ranking systems serve critical roles in sport settings, most notably in determining playoff participants and seeding. Numerous ranking methodologies exist that incorporate many input measures and produce models that are highly predictive of game outcomes. However, there are circumstances—especially for amateur sport leagues—in which more complex inputs are either unavailable or not desirable, as they may lead to adverse performance incentives. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to highlight a ranking methodology that only considers binary game outcomes, i.e., wins and losses. Specifically, we consider the efficacy of the Bradley-Terry Model to rank sport teams for playoff consideration. We …

Of Convergence And Contingency: Some Thoughts On Public Firm Fiduciary Duties, Jay B. Kesten

Scholarly Publications

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Against Associational Standing, Michael T. Morley, F. Andrew Hessick

Scholarly Publications

Associational standing is a widely used doctrine that has never been subject to serious academic scrutiny. It allows an organization that has not suffered any injury in fact to sue in its own name to assert its members' causes of action. Though the doctrine is often associated with public interest groups, major corporations have usurped it to be able to sue, through trade groups or entities created solely to pursue a particular lawsuit, without becoming party litigants to the case.

The Supreme Court first recognized associational standing as an offshoot of third-party standing to allow an organization that had suffered …

Chatting With Ai: Deciphering Developer Conversations With Chatgpt, Esteban Parra Rodriguez, Suad Mohamed, Abdullah Parvin

Funded Scholarship

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely adopted and are becoming ubiquitous and integral to software development. However, we have little knowledge as to how these tools are being used by software developers beyond anecdotal evidence and word-of-mouth reports. In this work, we present a study toward understanding how developers engage with and utilize LLMs by reporting the results of an empirical study identifying patterns in the conversation that developers have with LLMs. We identified a total of 19 topics describing the purpose of the developers in their conversations with LLMs. Our findings reveal that developers use LLMs to facilitate …

Transforming Legal Sex, Noa Ben-Asher

North Carolina Law Review

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Irreconcilable: Mcdonnell Douglas And Summary Judgment, Sandra F. Sperino

North Carolina Law Review

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"One Free Rape": The Consequences Of The Post-Notice Approach To Title Ix's Deliberate Indifference Requirement, Sharis Molly Manokian

North Carolina Law Review

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A Seasoned Artist Tells All, Andrew Saavedra

LYNKD Magazine

The Illustrator and Comic Book Artist Inspires His Students in the Classroom and Beyond

To Whom Is The Chaplain Beholden? Guest Editor Introduction To Special Issue, Jordan Mason

Funded Scholarship

In this issue of Christian Bioethics, we invite chaplains and theologians to examine the role of the hospital chaplain in the contemporary institutional setting of the hospital. The simplicity of the chaplain’s role is often taken for granted; yet, this role is actually multivalent, with duties and loyalties pulling from many different sides. Chaplains are people of faith, ordained and/or endorsed ministers, and pastoral care professionals; they are at once beholden to God, to their own faith expression, and to their sense of vocation, to the hospital, and to the patient. With various loyalties and responsibilities in mind, we must …

Evaluation Of Double Crown Attachments Made Of Polyether –Ketoneketone Secondary Crowns Combined To Primary Crowns Of Two Different Materials For 2-Implant Retained Overdentures, Esraa Wefky Shawkat Elsaba, Noha Ahmed Mansour, Heba Nabil Awad, Radwa Mohsen Kamal Emera

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To assess the retention force using a digital forcemeter, the peri-implant soft tissue health, and the periimplant marginal bone loss of two implant-retained mandibular complete overdentures with double crown attachments made of polyetherketone- ketone (PEKK) secondary crowns combined to primary crowns of two different materials Methods Fourteen healthy male patients, ages 55 to 65 on average, who were entirely edentulous • group I: seven patients were given a mandibular overdenture that was held by two im plants and had telescopic attachments for a primary zirconiabased coping and a secondary PEKK-based coping against a maxillay full denture. • Group II: …

Variations In Root Anatomy Of Mandibular Third Molars Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography And Personal Identification: A Cross-Sectional Study Amongst Egyptians, Shimaa M Motawei, Bassant Mowafey, Fatma Ata, Mohammad Osama, Osama A. Shabka

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: To assess the root canal anatomy and root morphology of mandibular third molars (MTMs) in the Egyptians using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). Methods: A total of 338 CBCT scans of mandibular third molars (MTMs) were collected and evaluated regarding the related root(s) number and root canal configuration. Statistical analysis highlighted differences between different categories and their prevalence among genders and sides (significance level was set at p < 0.05). Data were presented as frequency and percentage values and were analyzed using a chisquare test followed by pairwise comparisons utilizing multiple Fisher’s exact tests with Bonferroni correction. The significance level was set at p < 0.05 within all tests. Results: A total of 338 MTMs [186 (55%) from male patients, 152 (45%) from female patients] from 279 patients (151 male and 128 female) were evaluated. The majority (82.84%) of the studied MTMs had two roots. single-, triple-, and quadruple-rooted MTMs were less common than double-rooted MTMs, accounting for 10.1%, 5.33%, and 1.18% of the sample, respectively. Regarding root canal anatomy, Vertucci type I was the most seen morphology (61% of all MTMs roots mostly in distal roots (42.41%), followed by Vertucci type III (13.08%). The chi-square test showed no significant difference between males and females (p=0.36) or between the right side and left sides (p=0.691) regarding the number of roots. Conclusion: Within the limitations of the present study, the findings conclude significant variability in the root and root canal anatomy of mandibular third molars (MTMs) within the Egyptian sub-population.

Conventional Vs Compressive Implants For Supporting Immediate Loading Bar-Retained Mandibular Overdenture: A Study Of Peri-Implant Tissue Health And Implant Stability, Mohammed H. Karkash, Khaled M. Zahran, Islam H. Kandil, Ahmad A. Habib

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: This study was aimed to compare two implant design concepts used to assist immediately loaded mandibular complete overdenture as regards to the implant stability and peri-implant soft tissue health.

Materials and Methods: Forty-four healthy fully edentate patients were chosen. Patients received conventional complete dentures and randomly divided into; Group I: with four conventional implants. Group II: with four compressive implants. For all patients, implants installed in the inter-foramina areas and were immediately loaded with mandibular complete overdenture containing metal framework housing three clips and retained by implant screwed titanium bar. Implant stability was measured by Periotest^® and the …

Does The Application Of Polywave Light-Curing Units Influence Physico-Mechanical Properties Of Resin-Based Materials? A Meta-Analysis Of In Vitro Studies, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Barrera, Rim Bourgi, Abigailt Flores-Ledesma, Cristina Pereira Isolan, Vincenzo Tosco, Bogdan Dimitriu, Carlos Enrique Cuevas-Suárez, Monika Lukomska-Szymanska, Louis Hardan

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

The objective of this study was to systematically review the existing literature and to assess the effect of the use of polywave light-curing units on the properties of resin-based materials. A thorough search was conducted across five electronic databases: PubMed (MedLine), ISI Web of Science, SciELO, Scopus, and EMBASE. Inclusion criteria comprised in-vitro studies that compared the effects of polywave light-emitting diode (LED) curing units with monowave LED curing units on resin-based material properties. Two reviewers evaluated the methodological quality of the included studies, considering parameters from previous systematic reviews. Meta-analyses were conducted using Review Manager version 5.3.5 (The Cochrane …

Metaontological Dismissive Strategies: Implications And Applications In Metaphysics Of Race And Gender, Ethan F. Stumpp

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Metaontological discourse, inquiring into the nature, methodology, and aims of ontology, has functioned as the war ground for those skeptical of ontological projects against those who believe that ontological inquiry is substantive (i.e., meaningful, important, worth pursuing). I call the inquiry which engages in determining criteria to distinguish substantive from nonsubstantive inquiry/discourse: “the metaphysics of discourse”. In this project, I identify three frameworks in the metaphysics of discourse: Easy Ontology, The “Merely Verbal” Framework, and Metaphysical Structuralism. My primary concern is to show that these discourse frameworks or dismissive strategies all fail to provide sufficient criteria to properly delineate substantive …

Relationship Between Fentanyl Misinformation And College Students' Intentions To Administer Naloxone, Zoe Ryon

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Background: The news media has spread misinformation about the toxicity and potency of fentanyl, exaggerating the extent to which bystanders could be harmed by fentanyl when responding to overdose situations. College students are increasingly among the victims of opioid overdose, and their peers may be the nearest person capable of administering naloxone – an overdose reversal medication. However, college students who fear incidental exposure to fentanyl may be worried about administering naloxone.

Objective: I sought to understand the relationship between undergraduate college students’ perceptions of the risks of fentanyl and their intentions to administer naloxone in an overdose situation.

Methods: …

Juries And Tax: The Effect Of Income Taxation On Tort Damages, John E. Lopatka, Jeffrey H. Kahn

Faculty Scholarship

In some shape or form, most tort damages for personal injuries have been excluded from federal income taxation since 1919. Despite this rule having celebrated its 100th birthday, the tax policy justification for the exclusion eludes consensus. Whether the policy is justified or not, the exclusion raises two other issues: should compensatory damage awards reflect non-taxability, and should juries be informed about tax treatment when determining awards? Like the disagreement over policy justifications for the exclusion, states are not in accord on their damage rule or approach to jury instructions.

Proponents of a rule that awards should reflect taxation and …

Applying The Ftc Act To Anti-Consumer Contract Terms That Are Not Key Salient Terms To Most Consumers, Stephen Ross

Faculty Scholarship

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